What Really Happened When The Senate Confirmed Kavanaugh
Imagine that a man applies for a position as a fourth grade teacher. In the middle of the process someone in the neighborhood steps forward and says that the man had sexually molested her when she was 10 years old. It also is shown that the man lived in the same neighborhood as the girl did when she was 10, in fact he had lived across the street from a park where the girl played when she was that age, years ago.
Given such facts, wouldn't the school be justified in picking someone else to be the new fourth grade teacher? After all, there are many other qualified candidates.
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Or let's think of a tv show or movie, where a "good guy" befriends the heroine. They go out together, but as their relationship develops certain things seem out of whack and she starts to think that maybe he is a serial killer. She asks him certain questions designed to make him show who he really is, but he manages to convince her , and other people, that he is being wrongly suspected.
In fact it is not an unusual plot for a movie or tv show. Sometimes in the movie the woman falls in love with the man, only to learn in a crucial scene late in the movie that her suspicions were correct, he is the killer. Since it is a movie, usually there is a happy ending and the woman either stops the killer herself or there is some other hero who helps her get the bad guy. But that is a Hollywood ending.
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"“The person lying on top of her, who she’d previously met, you’re not going to forget that,” said Richard Huganir, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “There’s a total consensus in the field of memory . . . but it’s not the first time people ignored science. “
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According to scientists that study the subject, it is highly likely that Christine Ford's memory of who attacked her is accurate.
"“I watched all the hearings that took place last week and was just floored at the number of people who offered that as an explanation,” said Ira Hyman, a cognitive psychologist at Western Washington University who specializes in traumatic memories.
“This story that’s being offered here is a way of both trying to validate sexual assault and not deny it — which is a lovely change — but at the same time create a narrative that Kavanaugh couldn’t have been the person who did it. That’s just not consistent with memory research on misidentification.”
As Hyman and several other researchers told The Washington Post, being attacked floods the brain with chemicals including norepinephrine, a chemical that enhances the creation of memories related to whatever the victim is focused on. Ford, a psychologist herself, even mentioned it in her testimony.
Lila Davachi, a cognitive researcher at Columbia University, analogized the process to cranking up the contrast on a TV screen — central details get heightened, while those in the background get washed out.
“There’s a snapshot of critical features,” she said. “In this case it was a party with friends and she knew him. It is ridiculous to say she wouldn’t remember who it was. “"https://ift.tt/2No5stj
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So what we have here is a significant possibility, (according to these scientists it is a likelihood) that the United States Senate just hired a sex offender to represent the people of this country on the Supreme Court.
But this outcome will not be the same as the happy ending in the movies.
This is what Donald Trump has wrought upon our nation. People who will willingly pick someone who has been credibly accused of a significant crime, just in order to "stick it to" the liberals.
Christine Ford knew Brett Kavanaugh before the alleged incident. She knew who he was and what he looked like. It is extremely unlikely she would mis-identify him as the attacker.
But the Republicans didn't care whether the new fourth grade teacher might be a molester. They "won" . That is all that mattered to them.
What really happened? There is a good chance that we have someone who committed sexual assault on a high school girl sitting as a judge on our highest court, and everyone in this country knows it.
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The simplest answer was the correct one. He was credibly accused. Now scientists and memory experts say it is likely she correctly identified her attacker. We probably put a sex offender on the Supreme Court, and everyone knows it.
Trump and his ilk have brought nothing but distress and shame down on this country.
Do you believe Avenetti's client?
Don't know. But the reinforced lean to the right of The Court's most influential impact will be on protecting Corporate, Wealth, and some undeserving of protections.
We will see. I simply always had the impression that everyone, no matter their position, was equal under the law. Kavanaugh's view on this matter is puzzling. It seems completely opposite of what I always believed the conservative view was on matters such as this. And this is just one thing.
So, my hesitant conclusion is that Kavanaugh is not really a conservative. Something else.
A thing that has been not entirely appreciated about the Kavanaugh affair: This was the Left’s version of Pizzagate. And the Democrats’ Pizzagate wasn’t carried out by fringe nutters on obscure conspiracy sites: It was carried out by Senate Democrats and leading progressive activists on well-known conspiracy sites such as the New York Times opinion section.
A fair number of putatively respectable thought-leaders and opinion-makers extended the cover of their reputations over a series of increasingly bizarre and unlikely allegations for which there was essentially no evidence. (Why was there no evidence? The most likely explanation is that the claims were not true; but, of course, conspiracy theorists always take a lack of evidence as evidence of the conspiracy. “That’s just what you’d expect to see!” etc.) Of course, there will be no reckoning for this, because there never is. That’s the nice thing about having your political and cultural allies in charge of institutions such as the New York Times and the Yale Law School...
he Democrats have some soul-searching to do. In the Kavanaugh matter, they debased themselves, the Senate, and democratic discourse all at the same time — and they have squat to show for it. Playing dirty comes naturally to them, and they don’t seem to mind the muck. But playing dirty — this dirty — and losing? That’s some shameful stuff.