It will be great to get a decision this year. It does sound as though the judge has a balanced view about the bad faith interpretations that have formed the basis for Pesutto’s defence.
It is remarkable isn’t it when you look at the Judges reaction to the dossier. It seemed to me that when the Judge questioned the dossier, he echoed what we have been saying on MN since that dossier was produced. That was based such weak evidence and too many falsehoods. That too much of it, if not all, was guilt by association, bad faith interpretations, and clear falsehoods. Yet we have been told on MN for 18 months that the dossier was correct and that we just didn’t like the truth.
I realised when some people over the past 18 months doubled down on saying that the dossier was accurate and truthful just how different some people’s understanding of what is accurate information varies significantly.
And it was not just one or two posters who tried to push that dossier, there were more. But generally what I found in common was that they were also the same posters who found it seemingly impossible to think that someone can be interviewed by another person while the two people can have opposing views. Or that their supposed agreement on a topic is only superficial. That they don’t agree on many aspects despite some people’s need for them to be ‘aligned’. It is such a simplistic view that I used to wonder how I was missing what they were seeing.
Well, this court case shows how a group of highly educated people can be so fearful of being labelled as transphobic that they would go along with agreeing that a poorly evidenced dossier, put together in less than 20 minutes from Wikipedia was a solid truthful document. The fear of being seen as on the wrong side of history is such a strong motivator isn’t it?