I know… I’ll never look at an op-Ed the same way again at minimum, you can be sure… I was actually impressed for a hot minute in 2018, when I thought Amber Heard had largely written it herself.
“Huh,” I thought, “maybe all that PR bilge about her being so super smart and such a reader has got some weight behind it.”
the ACLU really put a lot of sneaky thought into it, IMO. You can’t imagine the amount of people who have blathered, “this isn’t just about Johnny Depp... She said it first happened to her ‘in college’”; and then I know I can block this person on social media with impunity, because if you are a person who watched any of her testimony you would know Amber Heard is a high school dropout who went directly into acting while underage;
and you would certainly have spent hours staring at some form of the editorial being discussed, wherein the drafter absolutely knew that thousands of people were going to read the ACLU’s borderline-dishonest locution “by the time I was of college age” and go, in droves,
”Aha! Amber Heard is just like me, a college graduate!”