The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to send Kavanaugh to the full Senate for a vote. They did so in spite of Dr. Ford’s testimony; and at virtually every turn, Republicans pretended as if Kavanaugh was not an abuser, but was instead the real victim.
I wrote an article for USA Today about this faux victimization, paying particular attention to the ways in which Kavanaugh’s supporters compared his rocky confirmation hearings to lynchings, conflating a rich white man’s inconvenience with racist injustice.
Women, people of color, and survivors of any race and gender deserve so much better.
Kavanaugh vote, hearings speak volumes not just on gender but the language of victimization
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