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CodeWriter23 on March 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uber’s vice president of product and growth Ed Bak...

On what basis do you establish "most likely consensual"? If the makeout partner was a subordinate, they may very well have been coerced, EVEN in a setting such as that. Risk takers thrive on risk taking behavior.

uniformlyrandom on March 4, 2017 [–]

> On what basis do you establish "most likely consensual"

It says so in the article.

CodeWriter23 on March 4, 2017 | [–]

Um, no. "most likely" != "apparently"

> There was no suggestion of any sexual harassment on his part and the encounter was apparently consensual.

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