Posted by Todd Zywicki:
McCann on Isiah Thomas Trial:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_23-2007_09_29.shtml#1190743883
Michael McCann's latest column for SI.com, on the Isiah Thomas sexual
harassment trial is available [1]here.
He notes one of Isiah's stranger arguments in the case:
3) Under oath, Thomas opined that it would be worse for a "white
man [to call] a black woman a bitch" than for an African-American
male to do the same. How might that statement influence the trial?
Thomas apparently made the statement to insinuate that, because of
values in the African-American community, at least as Thomas
perceives them, Sanders should have been less offended by the
misbehavior of African-American male employees than if white male
employees had engaged in identical behavior.
This argument is weak and probably counter-productive.
Ya think?
References
1.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/michael_mccann/09/24/isiah.trial/index.html
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