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“Conservatives in general and white Americans in particular have no business lecturing the rest of us about identity politics or that it’s wrong to pick a minority to serve on the nation’s Supreme Court. White justices held the court for 178 years and men for nearly 200 years, and now they are balking about the idea of selecting a Black woman? It’s pure hypocrisy. But they have no shame” These sort of statements confuse me. So is it now 178 years of black justices to make it Even Steven? Then we cycle to 178 years of hispanic justices? Or do we do just a few years of solid blacks then maybe speckle some other colors in there? What’s the rule here? Also, how bad do you want it? I have no knowledge of these justices, but for any other thing, if you had been anticipating it for a long time, you would probably take one of 2 attitudes. If the thing you want you could get soon, your attitude would probably be “I’ve been waiting x [unit of time] for this thing, and I can’t wait another [unit of time]!” However, if you had to sacrifice a decent amount of quality or function to get the thing you want soon, but by waiting the quality would be better, you might take an attitude of “well I’ve been waiting x [unit of time] for this thing, what’s one more [unit of time]” to inspire patience I’ve found myself cycling between these two attitudes when waiting for something that I know I could get now, but not quite in the best fit, or potentially later, in a better fit Just found this idea of how we adjust our attitudes when we need patience interesting | ||
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There’s that old Duke study about how affirmative action admissions didn’t work out because the kids flunked out anyway. It wasted everyone’s time and money In this case, the people who would be appointed would almost certainly be qualified. It’s more of the Rooney rule from the NFL as opposed to affirmative action. This is “taking a look” at well qualified candidates from a particular minority group, as opposed to giving unqualified candidates a leg up on people who are more deserving, does that make sense? That’s how I see it and why I’m not worried about it. And again, republicans would never, at this point, nominate a judge to SCOTUS who wasn’t a conservative Christian. If you want a truly better system, look to neither party. Both political parties now pander to their primary voters as opposed to doing what is right for the entirety of the country That said, that article is clearly written by an entitled moron. White men also wrote the Magna Carta and the Latin script. Doesn’t matter, and it doesn’t make it wrong by default
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I was just thinking that of the possible candidates here, the total is really only 3. Whereas if we were in an alternative Spider-Man metaverse (is that the word? I didn’t see the movie) where there was no previous white monopoly to feel the need to compensate for now, and the candidates were the original number….and say years down the road a black female happened to be the best out of the entire group not just the best of 3, would the system be better off? | |||
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How can we make laws that effect people without having them represented in the law making? Like shouldnt we have black peoples input on laws, since they effect them too? Women too? Black women too? And hispanic people. We cant know what its like to be them or how a law could effect them differently. Its good to have as many different perspectives as possible if the law is going to apply to literally every single person in the country.
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And if we compare a black person from Africa to a black person from the USA, there are a lot of differences, same as between a white Irishman or a white Italian, etc So really we can’t cram a round lived experience expectation into a square peg hole of skin color. We can’t say well we got 2 black guys, so between the 2 of them they understand the needs and experiences of all the black people in America. So it works, but not all that well, IMO But on the contrary, the reverse is even more true. A group of entirely one race is probably even less likely to understand. So, we are still choosing the better of two situations, but we have to be careful not to sacrifice too much quality or merit in doing so | |||
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It’s funny because comedian Bill Burr’s wife is black, and he made a joke that if you are in an inter-racial relationship, and especially if you are that person’s first of your ethnicity, you are sorta fucking for your race. Because he or she is going to associate what it’s like to have sex with your race based on you. And that’s a lot of pressure
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