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The Truth About Cancel Culture, Safe Zones, and Trigger Warnings
Attacks from the same wolf in sheep’s clothing
After pooh-poohing the claims of Deborah Ramirez that then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh had exposed himself to her during college at Yale, The New York Times revealed that indeed there were corroborating witness accounts to support Ramirez’s accusation. Too little, too late. Now Kavanaugh enjoys his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. His boosters during the confirmation fight pointed to the Times’s inability to find corroboration for Ramirez’s claims. Now it turns out, like the FBI, they didn’t look hard enough at the time.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Court perhaps represents the dying breath of a system of privilege that controlled the Court through most of its history. Currently, all Justices attended just two law schools: Harvard and Yale. So much for diversity of thought. Nevertheless, Kavanaugh’s privilege reeks with special toxicity.
Along with his fellow recently-appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh attended the elite, boys-only Georgetown Prep Jesuit high school. His mother was a judge, his father an executive at an industry lobbying organization in Washington. Despite his claims to the contrary, his grandfather’s prior attendance did play a role in…
