At least this time a judge getting nominated didn't get a rape accusation.
No, she did, somewhat.
At least this time a judge getting nominated didn't get a rape accusation.
To be fair, that Senator asks literally everyone up for confirmation before her if they have ever been accused of sexual harassment/sexually harassed anyone.No, she did, somewhat.
To be fair, that Senator asks literally everyone up for confirmation before her if they have ever been accused of sexual harassment/sexually harassed anyone.
Again, she asks it of literally everyone. So it's somewhat odd but it really isn't anything "special".IIRC she was asked if she made sexual assaults, advances, approaches, or basically any form of inappropriate behavior.
It was probably one of the most bizarre elements of the hearing.
Given it was asked with total earnestness and sincerity. And not just as a rote box check.
There was literally a news story about members of her church group being sexually assaulted, as an attack ad on her. But I didn't see it on my first google search and I'm too lazy to dig more.It was more along the lines of “she’s part of scary religious cult that will bring about the Handmaiden’s Tale”.
It was obvious nonsense, and the handmaiden’s tale isn’t even that well known as a cultural product. It’s mostly HBO liberals, secularists and fretters of some theocratic plot to take over America to prevent women having sex that are into it.
That sort of propaganda may be convincing to certain liberals and feminists, but it was never going to have any broad currency like Kavanaugh’s rape accusations.
Someone I work with genuinely feared the repel of Roe v Wade
I've seen some left-liberal publications argue that deprive the event of its legitimacy they should boycott it.
Which...fine that sends a statement that you don't think its legitimate. That doesn't actually matter because it is. Simply refusing to participate doesn't deprive something of legitimacy, unless you genuinely are so self centered you believe your presence determines an event, function, or ceremony's moral or legal legitimacy(which is apparently the heart of their thinking).
Its basically a refined form of temper tantrum protest-"well I won't go, that will make the whole event meaningless".
What the hell? look at the date this was posted
For the Left, and honestly, a lot of the secular West, the concept of religion is a lot like culture. It's a flavoring that can be added on top of a homogenous, multicultural whole. Maybe you wear a headscarf, or don't eat pork, or do a special ceremony when you're 13 or something else, but underneath it all everyone is really just the same kind of agnostic but moral individual. The concept that someone might legitimately, truly, wholeheartedly believe in the sky fairy without reservation is something only primitive peoples do. A superstition they at least implicitly cast aside once they've become sufficiently civilized.I'm fairly sure both Pelosi and Biden are "Catholic " which if true makes thier attacks hilariously ironic.
I wouldn't say its just the Left that thinks this(though they do), but the Secular West in general thinks this. Religion at most might be something you cling to as a matter of identity, but its basically a drug-either dulling you to the real world-"opium of the people", or giving one a sense of belonging and community. Note the emphasis on "faith communities"-religion is assumed as being therapeutic, the actual content of religious beliefs is immaterial. Which is why the left and secular political and academic elite's explanation for Islamic terrorism-is "marginalization, oppression, exclusion, racism" and why they respond more aggressively to alleged "Islamophobia". Islamic terrorists can't possibly believe what they believe, their just lashing out and alienated from a society that doesn't accept their brown skinned-ness, or weird dress. That is the Western Elite and Left's explanation for Islamic terrorism.For the Left, and honestly, a lot of the secular West, the concept of religion is a lot like culture. It's a flavoring that can be added on top of a homogenous, multicultural whole. Maybe you wear a headscarf, or don't eat pork, or do a special ceremony when you're 13 or something else, but underneath it all everyone is really just the same kind of agnostic but moral individual. The concept that someone might legitimately, truly, wholeheartedly believe in the sky fairy without reservation is something only primitive peoples do. A superstition they at least implicitly cast aside once they've become sufficiently civilized.
Oh gosh, so much of Western Jewry is pretty much Atheist or Agnostic. They might have shabbat dinners and do bar mitzvahs for their boys, but its just a cultural marker. The same applies to a lot of "cultural" Catholics, like in Congress. They'll attend Mass, and say nice words to the Priest, but they don't actually take the precepts of their supposed religion with any seriousness.It's why I'm personally highly critical of many politicians that use their faith as a shield, particularly otherwise non-practicing Jews. Pelosi and Biden are Catholic insomuch as that's the type of priest they'd want at a wedding.
Once again, its our Liberal-Left modernist elites attitudes. Christians are Islamophobic because uh brown people are scary and icky and stuff. They're a different "community". They can't possibly imagine Christians taking Muslim proclamations of jihad as serious and genuine. Christians take religion seriously so they take Muslims at their word when they commit actions in the name of their religion.Incidentally, it's also why Christians are so 'Islamaphobic'. They take the Koran at its word and assume that good Muslims will follow its tenants. After all, don't good Christians obey the Bible?