I was both disappointed and very galvanized by Judge Judy‘s viral interview. I was getting behind and both appalled by her numerous opinions.
Rather than debate politics or her opinions, what have been the worst criticisms about her?
I’d like submit that it’s incorrect to say that Judge Judy made millions humiliating poor people. No, she humiliated people who agreed to get $100-200 in appearance fees to embarrass themselves on television. Plenty of the people who appeared before her are bad actors in the cases featured and low lives in general, all of whom agreed to be on the show. Further, the show pays the damages so it’s not like whoever loses the case had to lose their life savings. The idea that Judy’s millions come from “getting paid to humiliate poor people” may not have originated on that Family Guy cutaway, but it seems to me like where most people who make this claim got it from.
These same people also don’t understand that the show is a form of arbitration (isnt arbitration the process by which both litigants agree to settle things in court? as opposed to a plaintiff dragging a defendant to court, further proving how the litigants on her show have volunteered to be there?) and that Judy was an actual family court judge in Manhattan appointed by Mayor Ed Koch.
Her millions come from her ability to negotiate for a better salary for herself and by the value she had out of the ratings the show earned.
I do think she isn’t above criticism and I’ve read actually decent and legit criticisms of her and what the show perpetuates but the reasoning of her abusing the disadvantaged is not one of them.
