Here is an example of testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee by a witness of which I doubt the fertile imagination of Any Rand could have conceived. This is Texas senator John Cornyn questioning University of California “Law Professor” Khiara Bridges, who also has a Ph.D. in “anthropology” from Columbia University, on the racial disparity in abortion rate for black and non-black women. (Bridges’ testimony occupies only the first 2:30 of the video.)
Bridges, in addition to linking just about everything to “systemic racism” corrects Cornyn’s use of the word “woman” to “person with a capacity for pregnancy”, repeating the phrase like a parrot that has just learned it and won’t shut up.
This then motivates Missouri senator Josh Hawley to dig deeper into the definition of “people with a capacity for pregnancy”, “Would that be women?” he asks, setting off a scolding of the senator by the witness which would have been “conduct unbecoming” if done by a college professor to students in a class back in my Bright College Days. Again one minute and 48 seconds is enough for the senator to conclude that he’s heard enough from the professor.
