{"id":1493,"date":"2018-09-18T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:49:16","slug":"new-sexual-misconduct-standard-the-accusation-itself-is-sufficient-evidence-of-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"New sexual misconduct standard: &#8220;the accusation itself is sufficient evidence of guilt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3b1fde1200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-swearing-in\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3b1fde1200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3b1fde1200b-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-swearing-in\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty good article about the current situation with the Supreme Court nominee &#8211; doesn&#39;t take very long to read. The comparison is to an allegation (ultimately dismissed) against Al Gore in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-double-standard-for-high-profile-sexual-misconduct-accusations\/\">In the coming days, you\u2019re likely to hear a lot of sneering about wealthy and privileged white guys who attended prep schools and the Ivy Leagues, a lot of fuming about how anyone with a background like Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s \u2014 mother who is a judge, father who is a head of a perfume-maker\u2019s trade association, Georgetown Prep, Yale University \u2014 must be arrogant, entitled, smug, and elitist. Of course, that background is hard to distinguish from Al Gore\u2019s \u2014 father who is a senator, mother who is a lawyer, living in the Fairfax Hotel on Embassy Row in Washington, attending Saint Albans prep school and going on to Harvard University. Apparently, we only hate the preppies when they\u2019re in the other party.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty good article about the current situation with the Supreme Court nominee &#8211; doesn&#39;t take very long to read. The comparison is to an allegation (ultimately dismissed) against Al Gore in 2009. In the coming days, you\u2019re likely to hear a lot of sneering about wealthy and privileged white guys who attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}