Deleting this tweet about Biden, because I'm not sure of the context.
As @sreconomist notes, in the same speech Biden was discussing the worldview of the Unite the Right protesters at Charlottesville and there's a chance this line was part of that:
As @sreconomist notes, in the same speech Biden was discussing the worldview of the Unite the Right protesters at Charlottesville and there's a chance this line was part of that:
@SrEconomist Here's the full video -- and yes, start at 48 minutes.
It comes in a segment about fighting abuse on college campuses and it seems Biden is actually talking about how "our English jurisprudential culture" has made this an intractable problem in America.
It comes in a segment about fighting abuse on college campuses and it seems Biden is actually talking about how "our English jurisprudential culture" has made this an intractable problem in America.
@SrEconomist It's a little garbled, but I think this is Biden riffing on the legacy of English culture in American law.
There's a belief -- apocryphal, I think? -- that "rule of thumb" comes from an English common law provision that let man beat his wife with a stick thinner than a thumb.
There's a belief -- apocryphal, I think? -- that "rule of thumb" comes from an English common law provision that let man beat his wife with a stick thinner than a thumb.
