Did you know nothing about Kozinski until December?
Finally, some of it was out of naivete. If you go back & read my early posts on Underneath Their Robes, you'll see that I worshiped federal judges (and of course still admire them today in many ways). But when I was younger, I thought they could do no wrong.
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Thank you. Dahlia Lithwick did the work of giving us the words to understand and explain our silence. But we need to move beyond her eloquent piece and find a way forward. Recalling where we went wrong with Alex and ending jurist worship is a first step.
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And it's an important one! One of the things that has been most frustrating for me is that even now, everyone's impulse is to say "not me!" or "it was someone else's responsibility!" when we think about what could or should have been done.
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But wow if we could have a conversation along the lines of "I saw this" or "I heard this" (which requires more than "I did not specifically know he showed his female law clerks porn and asked if it turned them on" and everyone ponying up & really thinking & digging back)...
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And then we all think about what we did and why we did it-- such as at the time I wrote it off, or I didn't know what to do. That would be so helpful to thinking about how to do better the next time around, avoid the same mistakes, and prevent this from happening again.
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Ex: I legitimately did not know where to go or what to do after he behaved so poorly last summer. It certainly wasn't enough, by itself, to be a "thing," but it was (and I knew it was) a sign that something was _really_ wrong and off.
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And the sad thing is I don't think we have established answers for what I should do (or what someone in my position should do) if it happens again. Again because no one wants to talk about it, or what they knew (or what they merely observed) too.
End of conversation
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