#MeToo Madness and the Court bit.ly/2NlkULC
#MeToo "will be deployed against Republican-appointed men most of all, to the disproportionate benefit of Democrats, and will ultimately gravely delegitimize the Supreme Court.
But, important as those considerations are, they’re not what should most concern us at the moment."
But, important as those considerations are, they’re not what should most concern us at the moment."
"What should concern us principally is the sort of society we’re becoming by repetition of this kind of angry, venomous ritual. The allegations against Kavanaugh are only the most recent and high-profile example—and certainly not the last."
The white-hot outrage that has become the currency of politics is dangerous. It doesn’t take a cultural critic to see that this kind of behavior, this “Planet of Cops” we’re creating and inhabiting—is unequivocally toxic for our long-term prospects of realizing common good.
"It’s unsustainable, wicked, gross, and unjust; and it needs to stop.
Put aside whether we should approve of the emergent #MeToo norms around sex and relationships. Put aside how they’ve been applied and how they might be plausibly applied in future cases."
Put aside whether we should approve of the emergent #MeToo norms around sex and relationships. Put aside how they’ve been applied and how they might be plausibly applied in future cases."
"Put aside, even, the political and cultural ramifications of who, precisely, stands to benefit most from the #MeToo movement."
"Put all of that aside and realize: However we feel about any or all of those things, what the Dem and the media and Ford are trying to inflict upon Kavanaugh—and what so many Twitter outrage mobs have similarly (and successfully) wrought upon so many others—is deeply unfair"
"But if the political power play that Feinstein and company have concocted succeeds, it will mark a tipping point, past which things will only become uglier, more brutal, and more merciless. It is not a road we want to take."
"It will unleash a Hobbesian war of “all against all,” in which no one except the unimpeachable—saints—will be safe. (Socrates was right to teach in Plato’s The Republic that even the perfectly just man suffers.)."
"This path carries enormous costs. So many decent people and their families will be shredded, not to mention the damage we will do to ourselves, to our own souls, by acting out such depravity. Our polity will not recover. "
"This is not a call for mealy-mouthed relativism or incoherent non-judgmentalism but, rather, a plea for proportionality, decency, and clear-headedness about the Golden Rule."
"Could even a single one of us stand upright—naked, exposed—as we stared into the face of King Mob, empowered as it would be to examine fully every single facet of our lives, regardless of how private or old the events they contained within them were?"
"That way lies nothing but madness and misery, and we should not make Judge Kavanaugh the next of its many, many victims.'
