The main thing that I’m thinking about as I flip through summaries of summaries of excerpts is the recent (narrowly decided!) Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
The Court ruled on narrow grounds (in a 7-2 decision) that the Commission did not employ religious neutrality, violating Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips’ rights to free exercise, and reversed the Commission’s decision. The Court did not rule on the broader intersection of anti-discrimination laws, free exercise of religion, and freedom of speech, due to the complications of the Commission’s lack of religious neutrality.
Oh, and if you want to read the summaries of summaries (some of which have exerpts!), the hashtag #IGReport is where they seem to be going down (warning: Twitter).
What stands out so far from the brief summaries of the parts people have skimmed is how little new there is here. Comey feared leaks in the NY office so he felt pressure to come out with something about the Oct investigation, the letter violated protocols against things that might interfere with elections, there was very different treatment of the on going investigations into the Clinton and Trump campaigns. All of this is old news though now it is verified.
Since it’s a Thursday in our current era we could even have a separate post about new charges against the Trump Foundation in NY.
As I suspected from the beginning, your opinion comes from your default assumption that these women are liars. Are you a member of the MRA? If not you should look into it, seems right up your alley.
And we are all a product of our experiences…right? My experience makes me stubborn. I would assume that the PC thing is to say that your experience makes you determined?
I don't know if you are referring to my status as a rape survivor, or as an attorney who practiced criminal law for over ten years... but that doesnt matter because...
I also made a point to never vote for a female judge and encouraged those men to do the same thing.
I realize it looks like I am contradicting myself so let me try to clarify... Even though the justice system failed me, I still believe in it conceptually. My solution after my experience was to educate other men I knew that were in a similar situation (young, volatile relationships, etc) and I also made a point to never vote for a female judge and encouraged those men to do the same thing. In family court, joint custody is now much more the norm, which is awesome. With regards to criminal court, I actually think i was a bit of an anomaly back then in that my side of the story was so completely dismissed. It feels to me like #metoo may make that more of the norm.
With that said, my concern with these lists is that they become this living thing where women can record anything they want, there is no oversight, no verification and when women see they can also use it to make false claims, it encourages them to make false claims through the actual justice system. Basically, it lowers the bar for proof.
Think of as the way that social media has facilitated much more severe forms of bullying because of the anonymity. Think about the things that people say to each other on this site. Most of those things would never happen in person because someone would get punched. I truly feel like the behavior of the most radical folks on both sides of the aisle is getting worse because their digital behavior is starting to become their real-life behavior. I worry the same thing would happen with lists like this. False claims become false charges.
And we are all a product of our experiences...right? My experience makes me stubborn. I would assume that the PC thing is to say that your experience makes you determined?
As for gaslighting and minorities, c'mon. We both know #metoo is aimed at middle and upper class white males. Liberals aren't picturing poor minorities when they are talking about this issue. Kavanaugh is the poster boy. White, upper middle class, well-educated, a jock, a bro...that's what #metoo is about.
The main thing that I’m thinking about as I flip through summaries of summaries of excerpts is the recent (narrowly decided!) Masterpiece Cakeshop case.
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