Can a lawyer please tell me what to say to my redneck relatives

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I talk to a MAGA acquaintance regularly. He doesn't read news outside of his "trusted sources", which are different from mine. I keep in touch with him because we have a background in science in common, and sometimes I see a glimmer of doubt when I explain my side of things. We don't talk about cultural matters, which are by definition subjective. We exchange what we believe to be facts. We butted heads on the Abrego Garcia case recently, on what was known about him, and realized we weren't at all operating on the same factual basis.

I think the important thing is to keep talking.

You could both read the online newsletter Tangle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is a lawyer going to be understood by someone who is a redneck? I imagine they barely read at a 3rd grade level.

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Have you tried speaking very slowly using only words with two syllables or less? I think gorillas can understand 1-2 syllable words so they should probably be able to?

Would that also work with you? Maybe that’s why you’re having so much trouble with my posts? I need to dumb them down even further.*



* - please note how I only used words with two syllables or less. Except for syllables.

Seems like you misunderstood, predictably.

Let me try again, genius.

Ooh-ooh-ah-ah. Ooh-ooh-ah-ah.

That better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop using the term "redneck." You need to get out of your bubble.

I prefer the term "hillbilly" particularly to describe neighbors I had who lived like pigs, were uneducated, but were entitled in every way possible. They are full on Comet Ping Pong nuts and have deserved all the bad things that have come their way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is a lawyer going to be understood by someone who is a redneck? I imagine they barely read at a 3rd grade level.

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Have you tried speaking very slowly using only words with two syllables or less? I think gorillas can understand 1-2 syllable words so they should probably be able to?

I despise MAGA, but the two of you are precisely the reason for its rise.

[Anonymous]

Campus police can arrest

[Anonymous]

In most states police must be licensed and sworn through a state policing agency. I just looked it up and the Harvard police are indeed licensed under the Mass General laws and they are all sworn deputy sheriffs in the county where Harvard is located. So they are policies same way as the Medford police or Lowell police or whatever and are bound by the same due process rules.
I think the question is what your relatives think is happening. That Harvard police fail to write down the arrests? Maybe. I’m not sure what the laws are around recording arrests but if they aren’t following them someone could file a complaint with the state agency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is a lawyer going to be understood by someone who is a redneck? I imagine they barely read at a 3rd grade level.

+1
Have you tried speaking very slowly using only words with two syllables or less? I think gorillas can understand 1-2 syllable words so they should probably be able to?

Would that also work with you? Maybe that’s why you’re having so much trouble with my posts? I need to dumb them down even further.*



* - please note how I only used words with two syllables or less. Except for syllables.

Seems like you misunderstood, predictably.

Let me try again, genius.

Ooh-ooh-ah-ah. Ooh-ooh-ah-ah.

That better?

You’re not even following your own advice at this point.

“misunderstood” and “predictably”, as well as “ooh-ooh-ah-ah” all have four syllables.

I’d say you’ve lost all credibility.



(credibility has five syllables. I win. )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your stupid redneck relatives are really going to be open to what a lawyer says.

Like pigs in mud, they're wallowing in aggressive ignorance. They don't want out of it

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You say and do nothing.

Exactly. As Mark Twain once said: “Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you’re an idiot than open it and remove all doubt”.

Don’t give those rednecks get confirmation that you’re an idiot.

[Anonymous]

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