MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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#UsToo grows.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 1:49am
I sorta disagree with the slant of the post there, I don't find it accurate, the accusations against him were far from ignored, the way I remember it, the whole fucking nation was paying attention, it was basically the first round of #MeToo, and it was the first time men were "woke" by women left right and center to #MeToo stories, first time they really had any raising of consciousness on harassment, really had no idea it went on all the time in the workplace because: women expected it as something they had to put up with to be in the workplace. Most all women believed her because they experienced it all the time.
What really happened wasn't that people didn't take her seriously. They did, it really was a big thing where women all over the country were telling their husbands: that happened to me, too. Husbands are going: say what? Why didn't you tell me?
What happened was Clarence Thomas then hypocritically played the race card. This is a high tech lynching. Match set, game over, stop picking on the black supreme court nominee. GOP says: see, we're not racists, you are, you only like blacks if they're liberal. Anita Hill was smeared later, after the fact with GOP fantasizing all kinds of plots where Dems dug this supposed actress up to try to bring down Thomas like they successfully brought down Bork.. They used this fantasy to plot the Paula Jones thing, seriously, it was their model: let's try to bring Clinton down like they tried to bring Thomas down...I think that might be in Brock's book.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 2:08am
Biden stepped in to prevent testimony - perhaps due to the "lynching", perhaps found the sexual stuff uncomfortable, perhaps trying to be collegial...
It's nice Biden can go ariund now blaming McConnell for blocking the Russian revelations. "Say it ain't so, Joe" gets a bit old.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 2:12am
P.S. To be brutally and bluntly clear to any young folks who weren't around to be there. This is the way I saw it: when he said high tech lynching, the prejudiced white men out there who were being woke to sexual harassment for the first time by their wives saying "me too", those guys were going: huh?! but this means a black woman lynching a black man! And this is why they had to rationalize that it is a Dem plot to get a black woman to lynch a black man. Because "those people" would normally stick together, a black woman would not attack a black man, unless their Dem overlords tell them to do something, so it must be fake. Clarence isn't the most brilliant guy on the planet, but he sure knew how to play that one.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 3:01am
Adding in the set up for those who care, see the Wikipedia section on his nomination. Conservatives were still angry and bitter about how Bork's nomination by Reagan had been derailed in 1987 (became a verb in the dictionary "to bork") Not exactly thrilled with Bush Sr.'s nomination of moderate Souter to replace Brennan. Keep in mind, the electoral politics of the GOP having to mollify the right wingers. So next up to mollify the conservative base, you've got to do a conservative. But it's Thurgood Marshall that has retired, liberal icon! Clarence Thomas seems ideal to them: ultra conservative, but a black man, how can liberals complain. Then Anita Hill shows up, and in their crazy minds, looks like liberals brilliantly ginned up a sexual harassment claim by a black woman. Then Clarence plays the race card.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 11:11am
Abramson is calling for Thomas's impeachment because he committed perjury when he denied harassing Anita Hill and other women. Okay, he probably did lie but I'm not certain you could prove it as Thomas may well have believed what he said when he said it and good luck getting to admit now that he didn't. Another problem is that we all lie and if somehow Democrats had a big enough majority to impeach Thomas successfully, you can bet that the next time Republicans had a large majority, they'd go after progressive justices for lying during their confirmation hearings. Plus, what good would impeachment do anyway? Republicans would simply replace Thomas with a much younger equally extreme right-wing Justice.
If we want a progressive Supreme Court, we need to elect progressives to the White House and Senate.
by HSG on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 3:30pm
Hal, the Republicans stole a seat on the Supreme Court.
Edit to add:
You always attack Democrats first. You are oblivious to the acts of Republicans. You cannot be taken seriously.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 10:21am
You don't don't take me seriously but you fail to present any argument in response to what I wrote. Doesn't that suggest that you should not be taken seriously?
by HSG on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 3:29pm
You said the we neede Progressive Democrats. I pointed out that there was a Supreme Court nominee who was better than the one Trump appointed. The Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat. That is a direct response to you.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 3:37pm
So you think Abramson's proposal is viable given the make up of Congress?
by HSG on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 3:44pm
The Republican Congress is not going to impeach Clarence Thomas or Donald Trump.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 3:52pm
So then you agree with what I wrote . . .
by HSG on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 7:27pm
A Democratic majority could block a Trump SCOTUS nominee and vote on impeaching Thomas. A Republican majority will not impeach Thomas. We are no longer in normal times. Republicans are behaving like authoritarians.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 8:33pm