Social Justice Atheists Don’t Care About Evidence

I don’t think social justice atheists understand the importance of evidence, reason, and critical thinking.  Instead, they seem to prize things like emotion and confirmation bias.

Case in point – social justice extremist PZ Myers.  He wrote the following on his blog:

Here we go again…another woman, Deborah Ramirez, has stepped forward to testify about Brett Kavanaugh’s drunken behavior at Yale. It’s a story vetted by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, two journalists with a rock-solid reputation.

Will the Republicans finally withdraw this nomination? If they push it through, all they’ll accomplish is to diminish the authority of the Supreme Court still further.

He then linked to this article.

Which claims the following:

She was at first hesitant to speak publicly, partly because her memories contained gaps because she had been drinking at the time of the alleged incident. In her initial conversations with The New Yorker, she was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty. After six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney, Ramirez said that she felt confident enough of her recollections to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.

and

“We were sitting in a circle,” she said. “People would pick who drank.” Ramirez was chosen repeatedly, she said, and quickly became inebriated. At one point, she said, a male student pointed a gag plastic penis in her direction. Later, she said, she was on the floor, foggy and slurring her words, as that male student and another stood nearby.

and

She remembers Kavanaugh standing to her right and laughing, pulling up his pants. “Brett was laughing,” she said. “I can still see his face, and his hips coming forward, like when you pull up your pants.” She recalled another male student shouting about the incident. “Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face,’ ” she said. “It was his full name. I don’t think it was just ‘Brett.’ And I remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there.”

Let me get this straight.  She was so drunk that she was “on the floor, foggy and slurring her words” and has all kinds of memory gaps.  Yet she clearly remembers someone yelled out his full name?  So why was she so uncertain?

In her initial conversations with The New Yorker, she was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty.

Oh, it’s because:

After six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney,

“Carefully assessing her memories” for “six days?”  I guess you just close your eyes and order your brain to “Remember!”  Through the sheer act of will, details of your hazy 30-year old drunken experience materialize before your eyes.  With a lawyers help, that is.

In other words, this looks like a lawyer-led recovered memory.

Sorry, but none of this qualifies as evidence.

It does raise some questions, though.

First, what are the details of this six day process of “assessing her memories.” Did she engage in “recovered memory therapy?”

Second, just who was the lawyer who helped her recover this memory of Kavanaugh’s name being shouted out?

Then again, since evidence, reason, and critical thinking are not important to social justice atheists, I’m sure such questions would never occur to them.

ETA: The Times also said Ramirez contacted former classmates to see if they remembered the alleged incident — and told some she wasn’t sure it was Kavanaugh who exposed himself. – Here