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The BIGOTRY of "low expectations" is EXACTLY what Democrats and LWNJs are all about!! KEEP THEM DOWN because of their SKIN COLOR, and then ADVANCE THEM without ANY DEGREE of real educational EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE of their SKIN COLOR!!

Moments after the Supreme Court struck down race-based university admissions on Thursday, talking heads at MSNBC tried to dunk on Justice Clarence Thomas and ended up proving the exact point he made in his concurrence. Thomas, the longest-serving member of the current court, joined the rest of the Republican-appointed majority in a 6-3 decision that universities’ use of racial discrimination in admissions to guarantee minority entry is illegal under the 14th Amendment.

 “While I am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which have befallen my race and all who suffer discrimination,” Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion, “I hold out enduring hope that this country will live up to its principles so clearly enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.”

 Among the reasons Thomas concurred with the majority’s ruling to strike down race-based admissions was his rejection of the assumption that race, rather than merit, is the primary driver of success.

 “These policies may harm even those who succeed academically,” Thomas wrote. “I have long believed that large racial preferences in college admissions ‘stamp [blacks and Hispanics] with a badge of inferiority.'”

 “Consequently, ‘[w]hen blacks’ and, now, Hispanics ‘take positions in the highest places of government, industry, or academia, it is an open question… whether their skin color played a part in their advancement,” he added.

 Justice Thomas can write from his own experience. Shortly after the decision was handed down, an exchange on MSNBC proved his case.“Clarence Thomas, you know, he has criticized affirmative action. That’s how — that’s one of the reasons why he graduated from Yale and we know that’s one of the reasons why he’s on the Supreme Court,” said network legal analyst Catherine Christian.

  In other words, it didn’t matter how hard Thomas worked to lift himself up from abject poverty to the nation’s highest court. Affirmative action policies reinforce the bigotry of low expectations, wherein skin color is identified as both a handicap and metric of preferential treatment and success.

 Thomas’ colleague Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson was explicitly nominated to the high court by President Joe Biden because of her race and sex. In her dissent Thursday, Jackson criticized the notion that the Constitution is colorblind.

 “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat,” Jackson wrote. “But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
 
 

Thomas despises the notion some can reasonably conclude he is in his position in part because of his race. Jackson appears to revel in it. This illustrates the difference between conservative and progressive views on race. I side with Thomas.
 

Neo » 30 Jun 2023, 6:55 am » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 6:55 am

Thomas despises the notion some can reasonably conclude he is in his position in part because of his race. Jackson appears to revel in it. This illustrates the difference between conservative and progressive views on race. I side with Thomas.

Here's what is so damn hypocritical with the LWNJ views on race. THEY want to USE RACE as a way to achieve, and then IRONICALLY CLAIM that "racism is institutional in America".

IF you want to "end racism" as they CLAIM they want to do, then you ELIMINATE ANY AND ALL IDEAS THAT USE RACE AS A BASIS FOR ANYTHING!! INCLUDING their "questions" that government asks that forces you to identify your RACE!! Which includes CENSUS information and RACE BASED REDISTRICTING of "minority majority districts" which USES RACE to create them so that "race" isn't diluted in their voting strength.

Their HYPOCRISY just continues as they CLAIM ONE THING and then PRACTICE 3 different one.

Beekeeper » 30 Jun 2023, 6:16 am » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 6:16 am

The BIGOTRY of "low expectations" is EXACTLY what Democrats and LWNJs are all about!! KEEP THEM DOWN because of their SKIN COLOR, and then ADVANCE THEM without ANY DEGREE of real educational EXPECTATIONS BECAUSE of their SKIN COLOR!!

Moments after the Supreme Court struck down race-based university admissions on Thursday, talking heads at MSNBC tried to dunk on Justice Clarence Thomas and ended up proving the exact point he made in his concurrence. Thomas, the longest-serving member of the current court, joined the rest of the Republican-appointed majority in a 6-3 decision that universities’ use of racial discrimination in admissions to guarantee minority entry is illegal under the 14th Amendment.

 “While I am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which have befallen my race and all who suffer discrimination,” Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion, “I hold out enduring hope that this country will live up to its principles so clearly enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.”

 Among the reasons Thomas concurred with the majority’s ruling to strike down race-based admissions was his rejection of the assumption that race, rather than merit, is the primary driver of success.

 “These policies may harm even those who succeed academically,” Thomas wrote. “I have long believed that large racial preferences in college admissions ‘stamp [blacks and Hispanics] with a badge of inferiority.'”

 “Consequently, ‘[w]hen blacks’ and, now, Hispanics ‘take positions in the highest places of government, industry, or academia, it is an open question… whether their skin color played a part in their advancement,” he added.

 Justice Thomas can write from his own experience. Shortly after the decision was handed down, an exchange on MSNBC proved his case.“Clarence Thomas, you know, he has criticized affirmative action. That’s how — that’s one of the reasons why he graduated from Yale and we know that’s one of the reasons why he’s on the Supreme Court,” said network legal analyst Catherine Christian.

  In other words, it didn’t matter how hard Thomas worked to lift himself up from abject poverty to the nation’s highest court. Affirmative action policies reinforce the bigotry of low expectations, wherein skin color is identified as both a handicap and metric of preferential treatment and success.

 Thomas’ colleague Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson was explicitly nominated to the high court by President Joe Biden because of her race and sex. In her dissent Thursday, Jackson criticized the notion that the Constitution is colorblind.

 “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat,” Jackson wrote. “But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”

It's exactly how we get stuck with a brainless black female on the SC for life who can't even identify what a woman is!
And to the idiots in the Senate, that didn't immediately reject her for such incredible ignorance, THEY'RE the racists who happily tolerate that kind of idiocy from a black person, despite the fact that she would have immediately been rejected if she had been white! 
 

Zeets2 » 30 Jun 2023, 8:31 am » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 8:31 am

It's exactly how we get stuck with a brainless black female on the SC for life who can't even identify what a woman is!
And to the idiots in the Senate, that didn't immediately reject her for such incredible ignorance, THEY'RE the racists who happily tolerate that kind of idiocy from a black person, despite the fact that she would have immediately been rejected if she had been white!

You should read KBJ's "dissent" she wrote. It only PROVES that LWNJs are THE MOST RACIST POS that ever lived.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hardly feigned interest in adjudicating the constitutionality of affirmative action in her dissent today. Remember all that talk about Jackson’s “progressive originalism?” It’s not a thing.

 Instead, Jackson offered more than 9,000 overwrought words of leftist social commentary, “expound[ing] upon the universal benefits of considering race in this context.” Her embrace of identitarianism and defense of Asian-American discrimination is jarring. Jackson believes state-funded institutions should judge Americans by their immutable characteristics and historical sins rather than their individual accomplishments and actions. It’s really that simple.

 “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat,” Jackson’s sarcastically noted. I dunno; colorblindness seems like a worthy ambition. But the Supreme Court didn’t institute “colorblindness for all.” It could no more do that than stop justices from mixing their metaphors. What it did was reaffirm colorblindness as a matter of law. On this topic, the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is clear:

No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

The Civil Rights Act does not make exceptions for disadvantaged groups, “lived experiences,” or race — quite the opposite. Using Jackson’s logic, any institution could adopt any racial preferences they wanted. As long as there was some emotional argument for it. Though, in fairness, there isn’t much logic to be had in progressive Calvinlaw.

 Moreover, as Jackson surely knows, the Supreme Court exists to use “legal fiat” to uphold the Constitution. Every opinion that Jackson has been on the majority has used this approach.

 Jackson argues that government-funded policies that are prejudiced against white and Asian kids — all of them, no matter how hard they work or what their backgrounds might be — are not only legal but necessary. What she fails to concede is that for every instance of “affirmative” race-based admission to a college, there is corresponding instance of race-based discrimination.

 
 

Beekeeper » 30 Jun 2023, 8:36 am » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 8:36 am

You should read KJB's "dissent" she wrote. It only PROVES that LWNJs are THE MOST RACIST POS that ever lived.

The fact that she (and her other idiot racists on the court) refuses to uphold their duty and her oath to support and defend the Constitution makes this baboon (and the demented diaper-boy who nominated her) ILLEGITIMATE!  They all FAVOR racism and demand it be legitimized against EVERY OTHER RACE except her own, proving how unsuitable she was to ever be nominated in the first place!  They HATE the Constitution, and should NEVER have been put in the position of defending it!

But what else could you expect from an incompetent socialist like Biden?
 

Zeets2 » 30 Jun 2023, 12:05 pm » wrote: ↑

30 Jun 2023, 12:05 pm

The fact that she (and her other idiot racists on the court) refuses to uphold their duty and her oath to support and defend the Constitution makes this baboon (and the demented diaper-boy who nominated her) ILLEGITIMATE!  They all FAVOR racism and demand it be legitimized against EVERY OTHER RACE except her own, proving how unsuitable she was to ever be nominated in the first place!  They HATE the Constitution, and should NEVER have been put in the position of defending it!

But what else could you expect from an incompetent socialist like Biden?

Well of course set is going to love Biden and his UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS!!

After all, she was nominated to the SCOTUS as an Affirmative Action hire of which she is HIGHLY UNQUALIFIED to be on.