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Hi Atoosa,

Ivanka was Trump’s senior advisor. To suggest she is innocent denies that she approved and co-operated with his regime + subsequent policy changes. She is complicit. When someone becomes a politician committing acts of political violence*, they lose some of the privacy and rights of the average citizen. I think mean tweets are fair. It’s no different than when the French said Marie Antionette said “let them eat cake” - gossip, sure, but also a cope, in a world where peasants were powerless.

*we are able to conceive of theft as a crime, but it is harder to imagine, for some reason, policies that kill and endanger people as crime.

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Jun 27, 2022Liked by Atoosa Rubenstein

While I agree with a right to privacy, Ivanka publicly said she was 'unabashedly' pro choice while her father was in office. She was a member of his administration and had her own role to play in the decisions made there. She is a public figure and a celebrity in her own right due to her co-starring role on The Apprentice and her clothing and fashion accessories line. There is no hiding behind Daddy when the going gets rough, and blaming it all on him.

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