Okay. Again, most of the men who have expressed to me versions of the concern you dismissed are people involved in or considering a career in politics that might lead them to a prominent job or appointment. I don't think they'd find your analysis reassuring.
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What exactly are they worried about? That their careers could be derailed by credible accusations of sexual assault? Yes, they could, but that's good. But why are they worried about that ? If they're just assuming the accusations against Kav aren't credible, why is that?
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Replying to @willwilkinson
The question I'm raising is whether the New Yorker story as we have it meets your normal standard for credible accusations that should derail a career.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
The question I'm raising is whether you think the "normal" standard, whatever you think it is, should apply to this case, and, given that the circumstances are so exceptional and rare, why anyone should think there's a universalizable maxim at work here.
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I have already written not one but two columns arguing that the normal standard of proof has to change with a SC appointment. I'm asking you if there's any line where your lowering of that standard stops.
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
I don't think there is a "normal" general standard. I think newspapers are particularists about these things. What's this particular person's motive to lie? Is the sum of available testimony and circumstantial evidence sufficient to make an allegation credible enough to run?
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Replying to @willwilkinson @DouthatNYT
Bigger stakes don't lead to making a qualitatively different sort of judgment in these cases. It's just that more resources are invested in gathering information, which means many lower-stakes allegations never get over the bar, but would if seriously investigated.
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What's unusual about the Mayer/Farrow piece isn't a lower standard. It's the unusual intensity and breadth of reporting on milieu, circumstantial evidence, hearsay, all of which coherently combine to make the allegation credible enough to air.
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Use every man according to his collegiate milieu, and who should scape whipping?
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Replying to @DouthatNYT
I am continually astonished by the decadence of the Ivy League. This Mormon kid had a pretty boring time at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Frat houses have little or no presence in most Canadian universities, so I always find American campuses strange.
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Me too.
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