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"Did YOU read the article? Did you catch the quote at the very beginning that says ""It is impossible to say just how many of those justices are ill-informed or abusive.""

Yes, I caught it. I also comprehended it.

"That, my friend, was my point. The author states that he has no idea how his implication that the justices are "ill-informed or abusive" applies to the group in general... so, my question to YOU is, isn't this sensationalism? Isn't this just like the evening news report during sweeps week that tells us we're all gonna die for this reason or that?"

Your point was idiotic. We can't tell how extensive the problem is because of a fundamental lack of oversight. That ITSELF is a problem. It's not "sensationalism" to bring that up, and in reading this you should be struck by the LACK of sensationalism. You know, if you had any inkling of media literacy.
Sensationalism would be distorting the charges, or deliberately portraying them in a way that makes people assume a worse conclusion than they should. Sensationalism would be the headline "JUDGE ADVOCATES BEATING WOMEN." Sensationalism would be the headline "IS YOUR JUDGE RACIST?"
Instead, we've got a solid case of investigative journalism on an issue that will touch thousands of people's lives, and you're pulling some sort of false dichotomy bullshit because you can't tell the difference between good journalism and yellow nightly news "problem solvers."

"Note, I didn't say that shit doesn't happen, I didn't say that the ones that do the shit are good people...I'm just saying that if an author puts that type of disclaimer at the beginning of the article, how much weight should it carry?"

IT'S NOT A DISCLAIMER! If a classroom didn't keep records of students' work and then failed them arbitrarily with no oversight, wouldn't that be a problem in itself, especially if you could demonstrate that it was happening regularly? Even without the excerbation of sexism and racism, also clearly demonstrated?

OF FUCKING COURSE.

"And, if you can't see how this "fundamental lack of justice" is insignificant when compared to the rape of this country that is being done on a daily basis by those with much more power, then you've got your head in a hole (or someplace just as dark). Which wrong do YOU want to correct?"

Oh, bullshit. Why do you care about infractions of our civil liberties and not about genocide in the Sudan? Why do you hate African people? Stop trying to change the subject in order to justify your faulty logic and retarded arguments.
And if you can't see why this is significant you should read the fucking constitution again while trying to remember that not all challenges to it come from Bush. Stop letting adlepated partisan myopia club any vestigial sense of justice you have left in your brain.
Go take your nap.