For these two, just like McConnell, Grassley, Hatch, Nunes, Meadows, Jordan et al, the ends are all; any means which serve their purpose, any, no matter how low, how despicable, how egregious. McConnell's speech at the FRC Action Conference was just one naked demonstration of that.
'The Crisis of the American Elites.
Judith Butler and Ed Whelan share little in common—save their willingness to direct cruelty against ordinary people in defense of eminent colleagues.'
Their motives here are also similar: Eminent friends are being taken down at the peak of their professional careers by someone who is, in their worlds, a nobody. It’s outrageous, and it has to be stopped. And if, by so doing, you defame a classmate of Kavanaugh’s, accusing him of attempted rape, or effectively threaten to obliterate a graduate student’s career by lending a mob of literature professors the imprimatur of the MLA, so be it. That is the point and that is the sin: the willingness to stomp hard on a defenseless little guy in order to protect your highly privileged pal.
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