Kavanaugh endorsement rescinded

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Once again, you misunderstand. I’m beginning to think it’s deliberate.
 
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Rubee:
This is false. Most people are not saints. We will all defend ourselves and not simply accept attacks and turn the other cheek.
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No, it’s true. Many people can remain calm and dignified.
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I think that a lot of Republicans are channeling Donald Trump.
 
Your latter statement regarding Blacks and women vs. privileged White males is, I think, a good point.
 
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How is that different? He called what they were doing disgusting. He accused them of being a racist lynch mob. Sorry, I don’t see a difference with Kavanaugh’s statement. Zip. Nada. If anything you’ve proven that any man that’s been personally attacked has not been ‘impartial’ towards his attackers but has told them right off to their faces, senators or not.
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No, I’m showing that I am not basing my assessment of Judge Kavanaugh’s behavior before the Senate either on the fact that he is male nor that he was nominated by a Republican President.

Justice Thomas was more respectful of the Senate. He just was.
 
I’m beginning to think you cant make good arguments. You claimed lots of people can be impartial when attacked. And now you think Justice Thomas was being impartial to the senators that ochestrated his attack in that video, not because of his content but his voice.
 
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Your latter statement regarding Blacks and women vs. privileged White males is, I think, a good point.
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Note that I am not saying that he in fact has a sense of entitlement. I am only saying that this particular choice of how to respond to an upsetting situation did (in my opinion) play into that stereotype. (It has been noted that Dr. Ford could not have afforded to be so emotional, since the stereotype about women is that they cannot control their emotions when they are called upon to put their comportment ahead of their intense feelings.)
 
Justice Kavanaugh certainly didn’t tell them what they were doing was disgusting. I now understand your standard is to speak slowly and in low tones.
 
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Justice Kavanaugh certainly didn’t tell them what they were doing was disgusting. I now understand your standard is to speak slowly and in low tones.
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Well, yes, that and not talking on top of the Senators.
You know, courtroom standards…not something Judge Kavanaugh isn’t well-acquainted with.
 
Rubee said:
I’m beginning to think you cant make good arguments. You claimed lots of people can be impartial when attacked. And now you think Justice Thomas was being impartial to the senators that ochestrated his attack in that video, not because of his content but his voice.
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I said justices must be impartial with regard to cases. They must speak and act in a dignified manner. I’m sure Justice Thomas was upset, but he possessed dignity, self-control, and respect, qualities Brett Kavanaugh seems to lack.

Please leave me out of this unless for some thoroughly inexplicable reason I’m called to testify before the Senate.
 
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I’ll need the clip of when he spoke over senators. Lets see in context what you mean. I hope its not those instances they were asking him a question and cutting him off so he couldn’t provide context. And in addition, Justice Thomas, horrible as that was, was not being subjected to accusations about things from high school year books and gang rapes. It was one ‘he said-she said’ case and even he still lectured these senators. So much for impartiality when your own rep is on the line.
 
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I think many or most White men have, at least unconsciously, a sense of entitlement and privilege, including those who do not behave as if they do. This ties in with something I just taught in my social psychology class: the difference between explicit and implicit attitudes. The former is learned later in one’s adult life, while the latter is a product of childhood socialization. So if you are raised to believe you are entitled by being in the majority, that feeling stays with you, unconsciously, into your adult life regardless of what you explicitly think and feel in the present, and even reveals itself in surprising behaviors. This is cutting-edge research. Nonetheless, we should not hold this against Kavanaugh, or any other White man. It is what it is.
 
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I’m not White and when I look at him, all I see is a human being desperately defending himself. Why would anyone feel accepting of such treatment? That’s not entitlement in my view.
 
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I’m not White and when I look at him, all I see is a human being desperately defending himself.
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I wonder what he did that got him in such a desperate situation?

I see an angry man who feels entitled. A man who is especially angry with women.
 
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You are correct. The entitlement is expressed in much more subtle ways than a display of anger.
 
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I’ll need the clip of when he spoke over senators.
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Wait — You haven’t seen him shouting down the Senators? So all of your opinions on this thread were formed without even having watched Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh testify? Then how on earth can you claim to have an informed opinion on whether Dr. Ford’s accusation is credible?
 
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I suppose Judge Kavanaugh could have told the senators who he could were speaking foolishness to “zip it”, as Judge Scheindlin does on TV.

But there is nothing wrong with righteous anger, especially when the senators are calling you a sexual pervert and criminal
 
I’ve seen him insisting on answering when senators attempted to cut him off after asking questions that insinuated his bad character. I’m asking for this shouting videos because I think there’s a context missed by those who just talk about his voice.
 
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LOL That’s exactly who we need to get to the bottom of this: Judge Judy. Forget the phony niceties.
 
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