What examples can you cite of the left doing this?

There may be a few, I don't know. But I think "it's a common tactic on both the right and left" is a particularly toothless response to the leader of your party accusing vocal sexual assault survivors of being paid imposters.

Trump is minimizing the voices of victims. It's literally the antithesis of your own views on the matter. I believe you genuinely care about sexual assault victims and genuinely want these issues to be magnified. But I think it's important for you to understand that insisting "both sides do it" in response to Trump's disgusting tweet is part of the problem. If you want these issues to be brought to the forefront, I don't see how you can be anything but critical of Trump's tweet. Instead, you're seeking to deflect by insisting it's somehow just politics as usual and a common tactic deployed by both sides.

It's not politics as usual. It's a disgusting ploy seeking to quiet the voices of victims and drum up support by insisting vocal sexual assault victims aren't genuine in their grief and displeasure, but instead are just part of a grand liberal conspiracy. Politics as usual would be a disagreement about policy. This is a blatant lie pushed by the President that's designed to convince people who choose to ignore the concerns of rape victims that they they actually occupy the moral high ground.

It's conspiratorial garbage, plain and simple, and I don't see how one can make the argument that they're an ally to sexual assault survivors while simultaneously supporting the person pushing that garbage. One is completely inconsistent with the other.

The signs were almost certainly a campus initiative funded by the administration to counter the signs hung during move-in. It's a PR stunt.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But I highly doubt it's something organic from students given the similarity of the signs as discussed.

https://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/it-s-a-banner-year...

Going O.T. :

Watching the beginning of Justice Kavanaugh's swearing in ceremony last night,Justice Ginsberg did not look in good shape.

I saw an interview she gave around the time of the initial Kananaugh hearings.

She didn't look good then.

She seems to have gone downhill quite a bit since then.

Off topic, but very true. The "lifetime appointment" thing is tricky. If you eventually get to such an advanced age that you are barely able to stay awake, that seems to be a problem (regardless of your ideology). There should be some sort of mechanism to prevent this, in my humble opinion.

FWIW, I'd be saying the same thing in 15 years if Clarence Thomas is barely coherent on the court in his mid-80's. Sometimes you need to recognize when to move on.

Clarence Thomas didn't speak during a Supreme Court case for 10 years. Didn't ask a single question during a single case. That's not hyperbole. Next to him, Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a picture of health and vitality. Mentally, she's quite strong and is unlikely to retire under this administration.