Mon, Jul 26, 2021 11:33 a.m.
Trans-BS at the Olympics
"W": I just learned that those of us who deny that there is such a thing as a Trans-anything are guilty of holding "Biological Essentialism" views, as per Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity (2020).
This duo, by the way, is opposed to Biological Essentialism. They are good at relating developments in "Theory," including such madness as Queer, Disability, and Fat Studies. Unlike these authors, I don't regard this as "scholarship." Rather, it is biology-denial and anti-normal propaganda.
Olympic first here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9826993/Tokyo-Olympics-Canadian-soccer-player-Quinn-openly-transgender-person-compete.html?ito=push-notification&ci=vi6xw4gpJJ&si=27579298&ai=9826993
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A PRETTY DECENT BIT OF REPORTING ON NBA BLACKS--AND WHAT THEY DO IN THEIR SPARE TIME(S-E-X);NEW PORTLAND COACH BILLUPS "CLEARED" BY FORMER PROSECUTOR.
GRA:Edited by me due to the length of the article.Still fascinating.We KNOW many of these types of rape reports are made to disappear.Some big names here.
By Aaron Fentress | The Oregonian/OregonLive July 21,2021
No criminal charges were brought against new Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups in connection with a 1997 rape allegation because an investigation determined that Billups’ sexual interactions that night with the accuser were consensual and because he was not present at the condominium where the woman reported she was raped, the former Middlesex County district attorney who led the investigation told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Thomas F. Reilly oversaw the investigation into the sexual assault a woman reported the night of Nov. 9, 1997, at the Waltham, Massachusetts, condo of Antoine Walker, one of Billups’ Boston Celtics teammates. Walker was not accused in the case.
All of those accused, including Billups, have maintained their innocence and no criminal charges were ever filed in the case. In a civil lawsuit filed in April 1998, the woman referred to as Jane Doe said that Billups, Celtics teammate Ron Mercer and one of Walker’s roommates sexually assaulted her. The suit also named Walker claiming that he failed to protect her in his home. The lawsuit was settled out of court by Billups and Mercer in 2000. The Oregonian/OregonLive reached out to Doe’s attorney, Margaret A. Burnham, multiple times in the past few weeks. She declined to speak about the case.
“The plaintiff in this case is not interested in getting involved in the current controversy,” Burnham said late last month. “We stand by the allegations.”
Reilly, who declined to discuss certain specifics of the case, said that his office’s investigation determined that the woman was definitely raped that night by multiple men, but he was adamant that evidence gathered showed that Billups and Mercer did not go to Walker’s home that night, and that prior sexual contact between Billups and Doe and Mercer and Doe was consensual.
“What I can tell you is that regarding the incident, or interaction between he and the woman that was involved, we did investigate that, and it was a very thorough and very comprehensive investigation,” Reilly said of Billups. “We did interview the woman involved on at least one occasion, if not multiple occasions, and it was very clear that any acts between he and the woman were consensual. That was it.”
The Blazers’ hiring of Billups late last month has led to many fans being upset, believing that their team should have rejected Billups over the accusations. Reilly said he finds it surprising that some have convinced themselves that Billups is guilty, when 24 years ago his office determined that Billups was not involved.
The 1997 case came to the forefront when the Blazers interviewed and then hired Billups to become their next coach.
A report published July 13 by Oregon Public Broadcasting raised questions about the Blazers’ investigation, revealing that the probe did not include attempting to contact the accuser or her attorney, Burnham, who is now a law professor at Northeastern University.
“It’s news to us that they conducted an investigation,” Burnham told OPB.
--GRA
NBA RAPE CASE PART TWO
According to court documents, on the night of Nov. 9, 1997, Doe went with friends to a comedy club in Boston. There, she met up with Walker, someone Doe had dated in the past, his friends, Michael Irvin (not the former NFL wide receiver) and Dennis Smith, as well as Billups and Mercer. According to Doe, as the group prepared to leave, Irvin told Doe that Walker wanted her to go to his luxury condominium in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Walker, Mercer and Billups all lived in separate condos in the same complex, which was near the Celtics’ practice facility.
Walker and Smith left the club in one car while Doe, Billups, Irvin and Mercer left in another.
This led to what Reilly called two different incidents: The sexual interactions between Doe and Billups and Doe and Mercer away from Walker’s condominium, and what happened later at Walker’s.
There are inconsistencies about what happened before Doe arrived at Walker’s condo. In her suit, Doe said Billups, Mercer and Irvin told police they had gone to Mercer’s condo with Doe. In separate counterclaims against Doe, Billups said he and Doe had sexual contact in the car on the way to the complex, while Mercer said he and Doe had sexual contact at Billups’ condo.
Whichever version of the events is true, Doe said in her suit that she didn’t remember whatever happened between her and Billups and Mercer before she arrived at Walker’s and therefore it was not consensual.
Reilly said that the investigation, which included interviewing Doe, determined that the sexual contact between Billups and Doe, and Mercer and Doe, was consensual.
“We investigated, we interviewed people and there was no question in our minds that any and all acts between Billups and the woman were consensual,” Reilly said. “There were no questions about it, no doubt about it.”
(GRA:A White DA believing blacks?He should know better.)
--GRA
NBA RAPE CASE PART THREE(FINAL)
ARRIVING AT WALKER’S
The second incident investigated, Reilly said, involved what happened later at Walker’s condo, where Irvin lived as well.
According to Doe’s civil suit, Irvin directed her to his bedroom, where she said he, Billups and Mercer sexually assaulted her.
However, Doe’s ability to identify Billups or Mercer was not certain. The suit states that while Irvin forced Doe to perform a sex act, she saw two other naked men in the room but could not see their faces. Soon after, Doe said she lost consciousness.
The complaint reads: “On Information and belief, these two other men were Billups and Mercer, the men with whom she had come to Waltham that evening.”
“Very interesting point there,” Reilly said. “She says on ‘information and belief,’ which means she doesn’t know.”
The phrase, “on information and belief,” Reilly said, is used to protect an individual from claims of perjury should their claim against someone be proven false. According to Reilly, the phrase is commonly used in civil proceedings but is not helpful nor used in criminal proceedings where the standards are different.
Reilly recalled that during the criminal investigation, Doe also couldn’t identify which men did what to her at Walker’s condo, and investigators determined that Billups and Mercer were not there.
“In terms of her civil complaint, it’s a narrative that doesn’t square with the facts of our investigation,” Reilly said.
According to Doe’s suit, she woke up the next morning lying beside Irvin in his bed. Irvin denied this and all other claims made against him by Doe in his counterclaim. He was never arrested or charged in this case.
Smith and Walker were also in the condo when Doe woke up, she said, but not Billups or Mercer. Doe immediately called a friend and told them something bad had happened to her. After receiving a ride home from Smith, Doe that evening went to Boston Medical Center, where she was examined.
Doe’s suit details the injuries she suffered. Reilly declined to go into detail about Doe’s injuries but said that there was no question that Doe was raped.
The next morning, upon being discharged from the hospital, Doe went to report the incident to the Waltham Police Department.
GRA:Reilly seems adamant,but we all know how the game is played in regards to black athletes and the crimes they commit.I applaud whoever brought raised this case again--which at the very least--may bring up more questions about Billups,Mercer,Irvin and Walker.These guys must be absolute animals with the women they're with--consensually or non-consensually.It isn't too often you read about it though.
--GRA
SIMONE BILES QUITS OLYMPICS--PROVES HER LACK OF GREATNESS
GRA:This story was everywhere this morning.After Biles couldn't complete her first competition satisfactorily(errors aplenty),she huddled with her coaches and decided to pull out of further gymnastic action.
"It's not physical,it's mental,"she was quoted as saying."Being seen as the best was wearing on me."
The greats do not quit.
Not that I've watched any of this "bile"--Simone or otherwise.
--GRA
jerry pdx
Been some local controversy about Billups as coach because of the rape "allegation" but team management wanted a black coach to appease Lillard. I don't know if the woman who got raped was white but I think there was a 99% chance she was. She was also voluntarily "dating" negroes so whatever happened, I don't feel sorry for her.
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