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This question was not raised when the Obama administration dictated procedures and evidentiary standards to universities in cases of sexual assault, with threat
by bitwize 2y ago
This question was not raised when the Obama administration dictated procedures and evidentiary standards to universities in cases of sexual assault, with threats of being found liable under Title IX for noncompliance. Well it was raised by some on the right, and then dismissed because, you know, the right, and who wants to defend campus rapists anyway? Those Duke University lacrosse kids should have hung -- even if they didn't actually rape that girl, they might have... or they might have raped some other girl.
When Orange Man exercises a power he presumes to have, it's "dictatorial", but when "Pen and a Phone" Obama exercised that same power -- together with the people, follow where Obama leads.
- guelo 2y agoBut why are those on the right that objected to Obama not objecting to Trump?
- onepointsixC 2y agoBecause double standards.
- bitwize 2y agoBecause to them, the "right person" is doing it for the "right reasons". Same as the Obama supporters, really. It's like, do we live in a constitutional republic with consistent rules the government is expected to follow, or is it "for my friends, anything; for my enemies, the law"?
- freejazz 2y agoOne is complying with actual statutory law, the other is just ad hoc vengeance. You might not like it but one is an approach actually consistent with the constitutional order of power in this country and the other isn't. I'm so exhausted with this "tit for tat" bs. At best, it's a tacit admission that it is wrong and you don't care.
- dani__german 2y agoBecause the left never cared about the rules, except to circumvent them when in power and to use them as a way to prevent the other side from making meaningful progress when not.
- onepointsixC 2y agoObama threatened, but did not make good on those threats. Trump is threatening and actively withholding funds even to Columbia which bent the knee, because these are institutions which are seen as political enemies by the administration.
- MisterBastahrd 2y agoIf the carrot is no different than the stick, then why chase carrots?
- mmooss 2y agoThis unlimited relativism is bizarre. If Trump invaded Canada, is his argument that Roosevelt invaded Germany? There is a difference between one and the other. What does the Duke lacrosse case have to do with it?
- dani__german 2y agoTo show that these questions have been asked before, and when the social issue at stake is one that leftists champion, very very few on the left are willing to stand up to presidential authority in any way. When the same exact power is used in a way that leftists by fiat deem "bad", there is no limit of the amount of pettiness, name calling, obstruction, and general ill will they will put to use to stop the president from doing something. in this case, it is to uphold Civil Rights law against a clear and ongoing violation. This poster should have realized though that the way to win in politics hasn't been "debating the left" or crying "what if the roles were reversed?!" for some time now. Thats the way to be a principled loser, and be called all sorts of names in the process.
- mmooss 2y agoThere is no comparable president on the left, or from any part of the political spectrum. > Thats the way to be a principled loser, and be called all sorts of names in the process. Your argument is baseless attacks and your victimhood. Is there anything substantive that supports your claims?
- dani__german 2y agobaseless attacks, like calling every republican a Nazi for the last 30 years seems to have worked quite well. Proclaiming your victimhood w.r.t. an abstract "patriarchy" has also lead to significant gains in political influence.
- mmooss 2y agoI think you have had too much Kool-aid today.