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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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From yahoo:
“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