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Walleye

(30,715 posts)
1. Exactly who do they think this is being unfair to? Some white man who should have the job
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 10:19 PM
Jan 2022

Oh it’s Turley. They’ve gotten so crazy I can’t follow them. They object to affirmative action because some less qualified minority person would get the job that really belongs to a white male. Is this what they’re saying about the Supreme Court?

Celerity

(42,650 posts)
5. Yes, white nationalists like Tucker Carlson automatically default (when the person is leftish)
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 10:42 PM
Jan 2022

to an underlying argument that ANY black woman who is not on board with the white nationalist agenda is automatically inferior and suspect.

People like Carlson only will allow support for a RW black woman as a means to troll the left with. They tolerate people like Senator Tim Scott and Candace Owens as those token types allow the white wing to reverse weaponise race. IF they (the white nationalists) no longer felt the need to do so (meaning they has such overwhelming majorities of white voter support and conservative PoC (such as the rapidly growing RW Hispanic and Asian voter blocs) to overcome any and all electoral opposition from a combined left, centre left, and centre), they would drop all pretence about paying lip service to any black Rethugs in any positions. In their heart of hearts, they despise the Scotts, Thomas's, and Owens's of the world, but they use them as political weapons/mascots/useful idiots). Many of the white wing are racial genocodalists/racial physical abolitionists (kill/deport all PoC judged to be of a completely inferior group/typology, unless you can enslave them, chattel style, and only then allow that in small numbers) at their core. The most hardcore also would have little problem with Semitic genocide as well (these would be Final Solutionists who think Hitler was doing the right thing for the planet).

 

PTWB

(4,131 posts)
3. I strongly support Biden's decision to nominate an African American woman to the court.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 10:33 PM
Jan 2022

I think he should have just done it and not announced it ahead of time. Comprehending the nuance behind that decision is beyond the capability of most folks in our country.

Regardless, I'm so glad that Black women are going to be represented!!

Mister Ed

(5,896 posts)
6. My feeling is that he actually did need to announce it ahead of time.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 10:48 PM
Jan 2022

He needed to let people like you (and me) who would like to see a Black woman on the court know that we could count on him to appoint one. Now that he's on the verge of fulfilling that promise, I'm thinking it's much better for him to have declared his intentions in advance than it would have been for him to make a stealth move.

unblock

(51,974 posts)
4. And it's a total coincidence Thomas replaced a black man and conehead-beret replaced a woman
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 10:34 PM
Jan 2022

While we're at it, why not pretend politics has nothing to do with it and presidents have no idea how a nominee will rule on abortion or anything else for that matter.

Turdly takes us for morans.

Groundhawg

(517 posts)
7. This might be true but No one has eliminated all other races in print before doing so
Sun Jan 30, 2022, 12:01 AM
Jan 2022

There is a law for non discrimination in hiring.

I love that Biden is choosing a black woman, He should have just did it, and not say it up front.

yardwork

(61,416 posts)
8. "...an exclusionary criteria of race and sex." Like all the white men appointed to the Court?
Sun Jan 30, 2022, 12:07 AM
Jan 2022

I guess their base will gobble this up, though.

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