Am I oversimplifying this?

[Jedi Guy]

92. As I've posted in other threads, for me it's a question of values.

Values are slippery things sometimes and it's very easy to selectively compromise them for convenience or expediency. From where I stand one's values only really matter if one holds true to them even when there's a cost for doing so.

If Platner was some random schmoe and not a Senate candidate I feel pretty confident in saying that people wouldn't be so quick to gloss over his Totenkopf tattoo, nor would they be so quick to casually dismiss the reports of troubling behavior towards women.

I think his protestations of innocence about the tattoo wouldn't be so readily accepted. And I thought the standard was "believe women" and it looks a bit more like "believe women unless doing so is politically inconvenient".

It's uncomfortably close to the way Trump's legions of adoring minions dismissed or ignored the various reports of his troubling behavior because he's their guy, he's on their team.

That's what I see when I look at this situation and i it's kind of disconcerting to watch values being jettisoned so easily in the service of political expediency.