Monday, April 20, 2020

What a smooth liar Justice Thomas was.

I knew of the 1991 hearings but have never heard them before.  I'm listening to them now.

My first thoughts about it are these:

-If he weren't black, FBI agents wouldn't have gone to his house to investigate him and the entire report would have gone nowhere.

-What he felt entitled to was to treat women any way that he wanted to when he was their boss, and he expected to have the same control over a working environment that he had over a home environment.

-What was ultimately defended was the entitlement of black men to treat female subordinates as badly as white men did.

-I didn't know that Professor Hill had only given her statement because she was asked for her opinion.

-By 1993, then-Senator Biden should have known better.

-By 1999, Justice Thomas should have known better:

https://youtu.be/HKTIsN6KfBI

Who knew that getting away with it in front of everyone isn't a surefire way to prevent it from happening again?

-By 2010, the media and the rest of the world's power structure should have known better.

-It's 2020.  This is not about knowing better.  It's about doing better.  Does anyone think that we are?