Would anyone in the media be paying attention to Christine Blasey Ford if she wasn’t an academic, reporter, or other “Elite?”<\/p>\n
I’m overhearing the television, so I’m not going to link to anything, but I keep hearing the indicia of elite status \u2014 notably, that Blasey is a college professor.<\/p>\n
I’m trying to think of how her allegations should be handled, and I want like cases to be treated alike. When will one allegation from long ago justify delaying the Senate confirmation process and the opening of new investigations?<\/p>\n
The answer cannot be: when the accuser has elite status!<\/p>\n
I’m thinking of how Paula Jones was denigrated 20 years ago. “If you drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find,”\u00a0James Carville said famously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s never been about making women safer, or justice. It’s about power.<\/p>\n
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