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His outrage last week was his reaction to potentially having to finally face some consequences in his life for his boorish and disgusting behavior. When people say, "Normal white guy" they mean White Privilege. Kavanaugh is a poster boy for white privilege and beyond that he's a poster boy for elitism. I'm sure that Kavanaugh thinks he worked his tail off, but his version of that doesn't resemble the average American's version of that. To Kavanaugh, working your tail off means having a tudor help you through all the toughest parts of school. it means going to one of the best prep school in the country where you're getting the best teachers in the best facilities. It means getting accepted into Yale because of where you went to high school and where your grandfather went to college. Kavanaugh has no concept of the fact that if he had been at a public school with middle class kids and had worked just as hard he wouldn't have sniffed Ivy league. And once he got to Yale, Kavanaugh used his connections to get the right professors, have help on papers, and generally take the short cuts through college. Then he used his connections to land the best law clerk at the best firms. His version of working hard means partying 6 days a week.
Kavanaugh has no idea how hard a common person would have had to work to get to where he did. I grew up in the 80s, I knew high achievers in public school. My girlfriend Kristen was one, she graduated 1st in her class, took as many advanced classes as they offered. To her, working hard meant studying most weekend nights, it meant working after school at the grocery store and then as she got older as a server at a restaurant so she could afford to visit colleges and pay the fees to apply. Kristen didn't get to go to beach houses, she was too busy studying and she didn't want to risk screwing up her opportunities. For Kristen, if she had done something stupid while drunk in high school there could have been legal consequences that might have effected her future. She worked her tail off to get a partial scholarship to a really good State University. While there she worked to pay the rest, studied every day and every night. She didn't have any organizations to go to for a file cabinet full of term papers on every subject imaginable. She didn't have family ties that got her into a law firm. She had to do it all herself. Kristen worked harder than anyone I knew, she made something of herself. The amount of work she put in would baffle someone like Kavanaugh.
He seemed unremarkable for someone whose supposed to be a great legal mind.
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