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Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh
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CoinCube
on 20/09/2018, 05:36:23 UTC
That's a cute article I have one as well and this one has 200.  200>65 since you like to bold out how many people have signed a letter!

Yes that letter of yours actually has over 1000 signatures now. Looks like it was sent out to alumni of Holton-Arms school who graduated between 1962-2018.

Alumnae from Christine Blasey Ford’s high school sign letter saying they support her
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/18/17869998/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-holton-arms
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“Dr. Blasey Ford’s experience is all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves,” the letter reads. First circulated by a group of women who do not know Ford and who graduated from Holton-Arms, a private all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2005, the letter has signatories from students who attended between 1962 and 2018."

Kate Gold, a class of 2005 Holton-Arms graduate who is an acupuncturist in Maryland, noted that the letter does not refer specifically to Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh but rather to the experiences of women more generally.

“A connection we all have is that in hearing her story, each and every one of us, resonated immediately, knowing that the situation she described could have happened to any one of us or our friends, and sometimes similar situations did,” Gold told Vox in an email.

She continued: “As far as Dr. Ford’s specific allegations, it is inconsequential/irrelevant to us whether anyone has heard them before, and in no way affects our belief that she is telling the truth. What we are referring to in our letter is the nearly ubiquitous experience of high school girls as they try to navigate coming of age in a society dominated by toxic masculinity.”

The difference between these two is that the first is a letter signed by 65 women who know Kavanaugh personally and over time and were willing to attest to his character. The second is a letter signed by 1000 women none of whom have ever met Kavanaugh and most of whom have never met Ms. Ford.

We will have to leave it to the readers to determine how to weigh these two pieces of data.