Kavanaugh's Law
Kavanaugh's Law
Kavanaugh's Law (or Kavanaugh's rule of high school indiscretions) is an Internet adage asserting that "As a Mainstream media effort to disparage a person goes on longer and longer, the probability of dredging up a high school indiscretion approaches 1"; that is, if negative Mainstream media reporting (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later a news agency will report on something the person was accused of doing inappropriately in high school. The term "Kavanaugh's Law" came about when Senator Dianne Feinstein made a media spectacle of proclaiming that she had secret information of something that Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh did in high school in an unsuccessful effort to thwart his being appointed.
Generalization, corollaries, usage
There are many corollaries to Kavanaugh's Law. For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that, when a high school reference is made, the thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever debate is in progress. This principle is itself frequently referred to the Kavanaugh Zugzwang.
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see also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/13/politics/kavanaugh-feinstein-letter-fbi/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang
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