It’s just a bullshit excuse to let the white kid off
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That would not be what I said.
What I said was:
a future that is basically the same as the present
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Nailed it.
It’s not like letting Persky remain on the bench was somehow going to make anything better for marginalized or disenfranchised people.
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Tomayto, Tomahto. The public didn’t like it BECAUSE it was clearly offensive.
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Rachel Marshall wrote the article. That makes her, at least for the moment, a journalist. You can’t have it both ways.[
I can concur. There were SO MANY libraries that used 2-digit dates that had to be upgraded. Many had been written in the 70’s when no one thought that the code would still be in use 30 years later, but this was NASA - we were still using the tables and chairs that came from military surplus in the '40’s because they hadn’t worn out yet, and the same thinking extended to the software: we paid for it and it works, keep using it till it doesn’t.
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alright, whatever. I don’t need to argue this anymore. When defense lawyers with decades of experience say that this is going to make life worse primarily for their more vulnerable clients, I’m inclined to give that some weight. You disagree.
I guess I’m prepared to leave it at that
I don’t like the “judges are narrowly self-interested automatons who will use a greedy algorithm to decide how to act on this information” angle. I believe that way of thinking about people has been demonstrated to have zero predictive power, and might be worse than random guessing.
I think electing judges is just plain awful (and I think America’s courts vs. Canada’s courts prove this point), and thus I think judicial recalls are a terrible idea. But in this particular case I see a reflexive reaction that leaning towards justice will always somehow backfire. I have no idea if this particular action will backfire, but actions that are produced by this way of thinking will cumulatively do more good than harm.
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Yeah, that particular mentality doesn’t sit too well with me, either.
If we spend so much time worrying that in the future, someone might react negatively to the choices that we make in the present, then how do we ever bring ourselves to take any action at all?
Agreed. Just standing by and doing nothing in the face of flagrant miscarriages of justice and misuse of power simply is not an option.
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And in Canada.
Justice Robin Camp resigns after judicial council recommends removal
Judicial watchdog finds judge’s conduct ‘manifestly and profoundly destructive of the concept of impartiality’
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Also, women aren’t considered real people. The real tragedy is when it impacts a promising young white man. /s
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