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So did the very film do an accurate job at all


anyone here?.

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I think so. I'm in my 60s and remember this pretty well. Other than private conversations (like between Thomas and his wife), most of what is shown in the film is public record. I remember listening to her testimony at work...didn't get much done that day. The senators (Simpson and Spector, I specifically remember) treated her like crap (the whole Excorist thing, erotomania, etc.); they needed to discredit her anyway they could. There was a great deal of discussion of Bush's claim that Thomas was the "most qualified" candidate. That was crap, too. He had limited judicial experience, and there were many more qualified individuals. They needed a Black justice to replace Thurgood Marshall, and simply picked probably the only very conservative Black guy they could find.

Obviously, it comes down to "he said, she said", and you believe who you believe. I believed her then and I believe her now. I think opinions follow ideological lines; if you're a liberal (I am), you believe her. If you're conservative, you believe him. That being said, I still don't know if his past behavior should have disqualified him. FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton all had affairs; did that make them bad presidents? I don't think so. I think Thomas is a terrible justice; he's just too conservative for me, but that's a different argument.

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Considering it was HBO, I thought it was ok. Obviously it was biased in Hill's favor. It particularity bothered me the way they hyped her background.....if you want to talk about someone who came from nothing: it was Thomas.

Something else I noticed was that no one (that I saw) asked her in this film why, if she was harassed, did she follow Thomas to another job?

Was never sure who to believe in this......the main thing I remember was all the endless jokes about Long Dong Silver at work and the SNL skit spoofing it (which was classic).



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They did ask this question. Her response was "that's a very good question and I'm sure that I can't not answer that to your satisfaction. That is one of the things that i tried to do today. I have suggested that I was afraid of retaliation. I was afraid of damage to my professional life and I believe you have to understand that this response and that's one thing that I have come to understand about harassment, that this response, this kind of response is not atypical and I can't explain. It takes an expert in psychology to explain how that can happen, but it can happen because it happened to me."

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Quite accurate, but the movie only mentions one other woman harassed by Clarence Thomas, while in reality there were four other women, none of whom got to testify...

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Seemed accurate to me!

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