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Oct 4, 2018 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Kavanaugh is using the same playbook that worked for Trump
Pretend that their validity hangs on proof of one big, difficult to prove thing (Rape, Collusion) rather than on the many smaller, easily provable things (Perjury, corruption, temperament, lack of qualification, etc)
The Big Sin sucks all the air out of the room and distracts everyone from the boatload of Smaller Sins.
So if we can't nail them on the Big Sin, they can be excused of all the others and we can pretend that they only came with one questionable issue.
Oct 3, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Great. Now POTUS can literally force the whole country listen to his morning rantings.
Here Candace adds another layer for flavor. Equivocation.
"Due process" IS what is required for the State to deprive one of life, liberty or possessions.
It's NOT a requirement for giving victims the benefit of the doubt.
Sep 29, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is the peakiest of peak white savior lady.
Isn't it weird how people don't respond well to random foreigners trying to take their kids to a hotel and then stalking them and accusing them of kidnapping when they refuse?
She decides (as many Americans do) that if a person doesn't speak English, then speaking English with what she thinks is their native accent will make them understand
Sep 27, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
So far it seems that Kavanaugh has some women friends and a suspicious cold.
#KavanaughHearings
Staffing your office with only female law clerks isn't quite the dodge against being a sexual abuser that you think it is.
It's much in the same way that I am not rebranding poodles by calling them dogs.
Sep 24, 2018 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
A word about consent violations.
There are two ways of thinking about the term and they are often confused.
The first is really the concept of one's perpetually existing inviolate body autonomy.
The second is the affirmative expression of that autonomy
So violating one's consent can be deliberate (ignoring or subverting one's stated protest) but it can also be ignorant or accidental (invading someone's personal space, patting someone on the back, giving an unsolicited hug)
Sep 24, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
What's really complex is when we begin to recognize how that internalization manifests as a sense of sexual obligation in boys as well, despite being wrapped in externalized toxicity
We are going to have to confront head on the clearly emerging fact that sexual assault and consent violations are only sometimes a matter of malice or "evil" and that by and large they are a product of a massive societal failure to teach consent.
This is literally how cycles of violence perpetuate.
Children defend their parent's violence and then visit that same violence on later generations, with the argument that "I endured violence and was fine, so will my child"
Sep 12, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Abuse of children is abuse of children regardless of what waivers you sign.
What makes this terrible idea worse is the fact that by allowing parents to opt in, they are creating a class of students who may suffer violence at the hands of faculty and a class of students who may not.
Sep 12, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I'm not saying 9/11 isn't a meaningful remembrance of those who lost their lives.
I'm saying that remembrances aren't any less meaningful when the emergency personnel are being killed BY us.
I encourage people not to dismiss or diminish the pain the feel at the events and losses of 9/11, but to extend the understanding of that pain to others.
When we bomb others, we kill their first responders. And the families of those people feel the same pain ours do.
Sep 11, 2018 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Yep that is true and so is the statement you're replying to.
She wasn't widowed IN the Civil War. She as a younger woman married a Civil War veteran in his 80's. He eventually died, widowing her. She continued to live into the 2000's.
The point is, there are people ALIVE who knew people who were in the Civil War. And who were slaves.
That is the definition of historically recent.
Sep 9, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Music as an art is fascinating because it is one of the few forums that require an artist to repeatedly recreate of a piece of art that was born in states of mind they may no longer connect with.
