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To: Mr Rogers
You wrote: '"women in her law school program." I said that wasn't who Fluke was speaking for. I asked “What group of women did she say she was speaking for?” You kept dancing around without answering, and now you're trying to convince me you were right by counting the number of times Fluke said "we"?

Close the beginning of her presentation, she told us, didn't she? Fluke said:

On a daily basis, I hear yet from another woman from Georgetown or from another school or who works for a religiously-affiliated employer, and they tell me that they have suffered financially and emotionally and medically because of this lack of [contraceptive] coverage. And so, I’m here today to share their voices.

So she was speaking not just for women in her law school program, but for women from "Georgetown or from another school or who works for a religiously-affiliated employer."

You had to skip over that to write your answer, which either means you're sloppy with your reading or you intentionally avoided the real answer and gave a misleading one.

This 'we." It meant Fluke was identifying with more than women in her law school program. It meant Fluke was identifying with the group of women she was speaking for: women from Georgetown or from another school or who works for a religiously-affiliated employer.

Strike seventeen.

64 posted on 03/08/2012 3:33:16 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster

Fluke testified: “Just as we students have faced financial, emotional, and medical burdens as a result...”

Was Fluke saying she had suffered financial burdens? Yes or no?

“I asked “What group of women did she say she was speaking for?”

ANS: “We students”.

“It meant Fluke was identifying with the group of women she was speaking for: women from Georgetown or from another school or who works for a religiously-affiliated employer.”

No, Harry. It means Fluke was claiming to be one of those harmed. That is what “we” means. If she didn’t mean we, she should have said, “They”.

Deal with it, Harry!


65 posted on 03/08/2012 4:52:58 PM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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