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Originally Posted by jman220
Like, for perspective here: Draft some articles of impeachment against Northam that the Dems can vote on for impeachment. What is your first count?
1. Going to Law School
Seriously though I agree with you. Besides the two cases being entirely different if they both happened in modern times, we discussed context of times and how things change. It is like people going nuts on twitter recently about a 1971 interview John Wayne gave Playboy.
We live in weird times where so many people don’t want to put things in context but the people most endanger are the ones who have now lived their entire lives online for all time. The Huffington Post just hired a social media editor whose Instagram was full on racist. There was no beating around the bush but it wasn’t even old stuff, it included Smollett comments. How does a “news” outlet hire a social media editor without looking at their social media.
Yet we have generations of people who will have an actual permanent record that will follow them forever, and many of those people are more than happy to make judgments on history with zero context. History is no excuse to being a racist or being insensitive but on an actual scale of infractions it makes a huge difference.
The Democrats aggressively pursued others who got caught up in sexual assault issues. So comparing how democrats and republicans respond to past transgressions with Northam as an example is completely out of bounds. I am younger than northam but old enough to know better at that time and I would have never been in such a position. But as an overall social transgression of the times it was pretty low on the scale. I am glad it has become an unacceptable action now. Some might argue the same with sexual assault but we are comparing a crime to horrible taste. Pretty much the same comparing Trump, numerous serious crimes of current times versus horrible taste 30 plus years ago. Liberals can not fly off the handle every time something from the past surfaces that is distasteful. It is a huge flaw.