Thoughts on 09/28/2018



Comment posted to Philip DeFranco video published on You Tube on 09/27/2018

'Social Experiment' Parents should get their child back (with a mandatory parental counseling course for both parents and at least 3 "surprise" visits from social services over the next 3 months), because basically they were felony-stupid not criminally negligent. I have read the Harry Potter series (except The Cursed Child which I just could not get through). Yes minorities are not widely used as main characters, but having Nagini be of Asian descent is mythologically accurate as JK Rowling tweeted. We are all either a bit or a lot prejudiced. Hopefully time, immigration and travel will make humanity evolve. Mr. Musk is not having a good month is he. What still really bothers me about the Kavanaugh/Dr. Ford Hearings, is the lack of any memory of the incident with Dr. Ford and others. Having never been a teenage boy, I cannot really say, but after the onset of puberty is there a period of amnesia through the teens in males? While my memory of the behavior of school-age bullies in my sphere is admittedly colored by time and emotion, it is still a memory.



Comment posted to Philip DeFranco video published on You Tube on 09/28/2018

When this mess started, I felt that bringing up events that occurred when Kavanaugh was in his teens was specious and irrelevant as his history as a judge along with employees and assistants was far more relevant. However Judge Kavanaugh's complete lack of memory of this culture of mistreatment of females of his classmates whether or not he admits or was involved, does give considerable pause. People can change, evolve and become better, but I wonder just how "evolved" Judge Kavanaugh is when he seems not to remember these parties and the effect on some of the participants. Has that phrase "Renate Alumni" (see: https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17902214/brett-kavanaugh-yearbook-accusers-renate-schroeder-male-bonding) ever been addressed by Judge Kavanaugh?