I too, grew up on the crime ridden streets of Bethesda

[Anonymous]

LOL. Brett Kavanaugh-one of the disadvantaged youth of Bethesda.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-too-grew-up-in-the-crime-ridden-streets-of-bethesda-maryland

I’m a native of this area. I’m a native of an urban-suburban area. I grew up in a city plagued by gun violence and gang violence and drug violence.” – Judge Brett Kavanaugh, on the second day of his Senate hearings for his nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States"

I know what you’re thinking: Brett Kavanaugh’s not even from D.C. He was born in Washington, but he was raised in Bethesda. And yeah, Bethesda — a suburb where the median household income is close to $200,000 — might not seem like such a dangerous place to you.


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Let me tell you something: I know what Kavanaugh’s talking about. I, too, grew up in the crime-ridden streets of Bethesda.

By day, I was surrounded by drug dealers, pushing their Ritalin from their lockers and marijuana in the student parking lots. Every night, when I came home from lacrosse practice, I walked through streets flooded with white-collar criminals. On the weekends, juvenile delinquents filled the mall: Loitering, shoplifting, carousing — always unsupervised. There was no escape. You could try to call the police, but their idea of handcuffs was a slap on the wrist. The teens answered to no one.

When I got home, where I should have felt safest, I’d find my father lying on his SEC filings. My mom and I were just supposed to look the other way. He’d buy my silence with extravagant gifts. I knew something wasn’t right. But when crime is all you know, how can you ever learn right from wrong? And who was I going to tell? All the dads on my block were in on it. They were the first gang I knew, but they wouldn’t be the last.

[Anonymous]

Ha ha! Funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha ha! Funny.

+1

[Anonymous]

Lol!

[Anonymous]

Work on your comprehension skills.

[Anonymous]

Wait, so did Kavenaugh say that, or not? Or is it satire?

Very confusing post

[Anonymous]

What I love about the McSweeney's article is that it's all true. My kid grew up in a poor part of DC but went to private school in the upper NW. The people who gave her drugs, alcohol, and the guy who sexually assaulted her were all rich white kids from Bethesda and the upper NW. Yeah, my neighborhood isn't all that safe but it's the people you know and hang out with who get you in trouble - and those were the rich kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I love about the McSweeney's article is that it's all true. My kid grew up in a poor part of DC but went to private school in the upper NW. The people who gave her drugs, alcohol, and the guy who sexually assaulted her were all rich white kids from Bethesda and the upper NW. Yeah, my neighborhood isn't all that safe but it's the people you know and hang out with who get you in trouble - and those were the rich kids.

Yep. I live in a bad section of San Francisco. The strung out homeless junkies tell DD to stay in school, or to hurry home if it's getting dark out. But she really DOES get offered Ritilan in the bathrooms by the rich kids at school regularly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so did Kavenaugh say that, or not? Or is it satire?

Very confusing post

Yes, he said it in his hearings. The article posted is satire making fun of him for saying it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so did Kavenaugh say that, or not? Or is it satire?

Very confusing post

Yes, he said it in his hearings. The article posted is satire making fun of him for saying it.

Total dog-whistle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so did Kavenaugh say that, or not? Or is it satire?

Very confusing post

Yes, he said it in his hearings. The article posted is satire making fun of him for saying it.

Correct.
“In answering questions from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Kavanaugh appealed to his upbringing in Washington, D.C. At the time, the city was, in Brett Kavanaugh’s words “the murder capital of the world.”

“I’m a native of this area, I’m a native of an urban-suburban area. I grew up in a city plagued by gun violence and gang violence and drug violence,” Kavanaugh claimed.”

[Anonymous]

This was hilarious!

[Anonymous]

His testimony suggests he grew up in Carver or Congress heights. Laughable and total dog whistle. Though to be fair, his mother did apparently teach at McKinley for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I love about the McSweeney's article is that it's all true. My kid grew up in a poor part of DC but went to private school in the upper NW. The people who gave her drugs, alcohol, and the guy who sexually assaulted her were all rich white kids from Bethesda and the upper NW. Yeah, my neighborhood isn't all that safe but it's the people you know and hang out with who get you in trouble - and those were the rich kids.

Yep. I live in a bad section of San Francisco. The strung out homeless junkies tell DD to stay in school, or to hurry home if it's getting dark out. But she really DOES get offered Ritilan in the bathrooms by the rich kids at school regularly.

haha my DD has ADHD and she takes Adderall, this why I give her a pill a day and make sure they are locked up.

[Anonymous]

Kavanaugh neglected to say he was the one perpetrating the crimes on the streets of Bethesda.