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New York Senator Hillary Clinton touted the ethical standards of female leaders like herself on Monday, telling a forum at New York University that women in government are less corrupt than their male counterparts.
“Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption,” Clinton told the Vital Voices’ Women’s Global Leadership Summit, in quotes picked up by NYU’s student newspaper, the Washington Square News.
As No Illusions notes:
A senator makes a categorical generalization about gender characteristics. No faculty members left the room in a snit, and the ‘sexist remark’ wasn’t carried by every news outlet in the country. In fact, very few (including your intrepid commentator) even picked up on it. Where’s the outrage?
The answer is, it’s only sexist if it isn’t complimentary to women. After all, women are the same as men except when they are superior.
Father-of-two Lyle Simpson admitted being a killer, DNA evidence proved he was at the scene of one murder and he tried to commit suicide a day later.
Yet after three days of legal argument in the NSW Supreme Court, Judge Anthony Whealy ruled some evidence was just too damning and ran the risk of “unfair prejudice” to the accused.
Because what’s important is the process, not the results.A “fair” trial isn’t one where the correct or accurate decision is reacted.
P.S. I will note that it’s not just the judge in this case:
Under Section 137 of the Evidence Act 1995 “the court must refuse to admit evidence adduced by the prosecutor if its probative value is outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice to the defendant.”