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1,600 Men Purchase NYT Advertisement To Proclaim They Believe Accusers

Kassy Akiva

In an attempt to draw a comparison between the accusations against Justice Clarence Thomas by Anita Hill and those against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, 1,600 men purchased a full-page advertisement in The New York Times proclaiming that they believe accusers.

“We believe Anita Hill. We also believe Christine Blasey Ford,” the advertisement says. The ad was crowdfunded and imitates a similar ad placed in the same newspaper in 1991 by 1,600 black women who supported Anita Hill, according to The Guardian.

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