@Popehat I would love to hear you opine about the scienter elements for these crimes.
Are they all specific intent crimes?
Do you have to intend to deprive the right or is intending the action that deprives the right sufficient?
Is there a potential “deliberate ignorance” instruction that could apply to Trump’s “belief” the election was stolen?
Is there a reasonable person standard for when you’re told in no uncertain terms “X” but you claim to believe “not X?”
@Popehat Really enjoyed that example of cross-examination. Something that doesn't come across in popular media that it aptly demonstrated was the "don't draw the conclusion" rule. Epner never asks the "apex" question those lines of inquiry were getting at. He never asks, "you fabricated your story just like you wrote for SNL, didn't you?"
You leave that for the jury to connect the dots, and you make it explicit in closing.
This week on Serious Trouble: Mouse on Manboy, my friend Mitch Epner shows up to prove he DOES have better cross-examination ideas than Joe Tacopina, and the hot hot Rule against Perpetuities action you’ve been demanding.
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/a-detailed-explanation-of-the-rule#details
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There seem to be a number of pundits insisting that anything short of putting trans people in camps is not "an attack on trans people's rights."
Please understand how ridiculous that sort of characterization is.
@nberlat Thought of you and this article while reading Chait’s piece. He points to the various articles at different outlets as evidence of how the NYT isn’t biased b/c others are also covering it. When, it’s just as easily explained as Singal, Bazelon, Yglesias and Chait all being sort of friends.
They’re certainly all citing from the same sourcebooks.
@nberlat Yeah, I don’t get how class-first leftism can explain, for example, how wealth is protective of pregnant mothers, except if the mom is black. Unless we redefine “class” to include racial factors, which seems circular.
It seems to me pretty obvious that oppression is intersectional - that sometimes oppression will be racial, or gendered, or classist, or religious. Or all of them mixed together in an oppression stew.
Tell me, are the “ethics in games-journalism” folks up in arms about the new IGN review of the Harry Potter game?
Despite saying the game suffers from “just about every issue that makes IGN’s performance review team cry,” and that you WILL fall through the floor a time or two, the site gives the game a 9/10.
The site has a side-bar about the anti-trans sentiment of its IP-creator, but ignores the anti-Semitic tropes in the game.
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