Posted on 07/03/2025 7:38:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
Moments after the Supreme Court issued its majority opinion in Trump v CASA, leftwing Redditors were apoplectic. One of my favorites:
Amy Coney Barrett is another racist Supreme Court justice giving Trump the power to be a fascist.
It never ceases to entertain me that the same movement that has for decades delighted itself in persistently demeaning Clarence Thomas solely along racial lines, thinks it has the moral credibility to accuse anyone of being a racist. A safe rule to live by is when the log in your own eye permits you to castigate a black man as "Uncle Tom" simply because he refuses to live on your thought plantation, it's best to avoid commenting on the speck in others'.
But abiding by that rule would require an element of self-introspection, an admirable quality that is unfortunately in short supply in the American political universe, particularly on its left-wing.
Evidence of this abounds on progressive Temu Twitter, "Bluesky":
I defy any man or woman with a functioning brain to read the Barrett opinion, which was admittedly scathing in its dismissal of Ketanji Brown Jackson's embarrassing dissent, and find any racial overtones. They're not there.
Barrett's words are void of any "racialized disrespect," though they are full of intellectual disrespect. I get that, for a movement grounded in identity politics, it's difficult to distinguish between the two. And yet the distinction is there, and if anyone is to blame for Brown Jackson's humiliation, it is former President Joe Biden, who elevated her to a position she is not qualified to hold.
He put her on a stage she lacks the chops to perform on, and now she is being regularly exposed as an intellectual lightweight. That isn't Barrett's fault. ACB didn't make Brown Jackson eschew academic writing in deference to Gen-Z colloquialisms like "wait for it" and "full stop" in her dissent.
(Never mind she used "full stop" right before a paragraph of not stopping.)
Scholars who are black, white, and every shade in-between recognize social-media internet jargon isn't suited for the highest court in the land.
To that end, it bears mentioning that Brown Jackson's legal and ideological colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor is widely regarded as similarly intellectually outclassed.
This phenomenon is the result of having one liberal justice, Elena Kagan, who is exceptionally bright and has a mastery of the law. It's not that she agrees ideologically with the Court's 6 more conservative justices, it's that she's not an activist posing as a judge. The same cannot be said for Sotomayor and Brown Jackson.
That has nothing to do with race, other than the fact that the presidents who nominated both Sotomayor (Obama) and Brown Jackson (Biden) had an unfortunate preoccupation with it as some kind of ultimate qualification.
The author paints the other six justices with a broad brush and refers to them as conservative.
The supreme court is not 6 to 3 conservative.
Too true. It would not matter if she was lily white or green withe purple polka dots, she is dumb as a post. She is just another post turtle. Someone who is where they don’t belong and nobody can figure out how she got there. But there she is, for life, ruining out days.
Doesn’t Amy Coney Barrett have a passel of adopted black kids? Yeah, definitely racist!
Her race and gender were the primary qualifications for her nomination as publicly stated by President Biden, for once he was transparent and honest about what he was doing, the Senate however should have exposed how unqualified this woman was to be appointed.
Truly so? That is interesting. Where did the Neanderthals come from then? Something interesting to study.
Sotomayor, at 71, has Type I Diabetes and Kagan, 65, is obviously overweight.
If those two have serious health problems that escalate in the near future, then Trump, or maybe Vance(!) can name their replacements.
It would be quite fitting if Jackson was the sole (soul?) liberal left on the court, writing dissents that sound like ghetto Twitter Posts................
What you say is all true. And unfortunately, the only thing worse that an idiot liberal (Jackson) is a brilliant one.
The stuff of my fondest dreams. I am hopeful but not counting any chickens. They will soldier on like RBG even if they have to wheel in her cadaver if they think they can avoid a repooblican appointment. Not all of those have been stellar either though.
Right. Kagan merely benefits from the law of contrast.
An ordinary couple seems average looking but then has to stand next to a handsome Brazilian soccer star and his cover model wife. The first couple now looks worse.
Kagan can wear the “I’m With Stupid” shirt. By comparison.
The great sportscaster Ernie Harwell said the very worst player on a major league baseball team, made fun of by the fans, in order to reach the majors was all his life the best little league player, the outstanding high school star and champion mvp, and great in the minors. Among the better players on the first major league team he now looks not so great.
Neanderthal remains were first discovered in the Neander Valley in Germany in 1856.
But I thought she was a "wise Latina"! Imagine if a white referred to him/herself as a "wise White."
“Don’t know much about history
Don’t know much biology
Don’t know much about a science book
Don’t know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love the DNC
And I know that if they love me too
What a wonderful world this would be.”
Fixed the lyrics!
Democrats always pick those for key slots that are ideologically most like them.
In the Pigmy tribe’s progeny, they hit the jackpot. Thanks to help from the RINOs she was ‘in like Flynn.’
She, like all those from center to far left, is exceedingly stupid. This is a fact proven when at her confirmation scam, she didn’t know the definition of woman.
That in itself is not too surprising as many can see as when looking at her why she’d be confused.
If an autopen was used to forge the moron’s signature on the nomination document, we might get her ejected instead of her occupying space as an associate justice for the rest of her unnatural life.
But if “Latina” or “Hispanic” isn’t a race, does that make it alright? If she called herself a clever Puerto Rican would that be okay?
Bell Curve more than suggested intellect and race are directly linked.
> But I thought she was a "wise Latina"!...
No, no. She is a "WIDE Latina". The 'S' key and the 'D' key are next to each other, it's easy to hit the wrong one.
That would create the Dred Scott Decision 2.0.................
I bet her IQ is no higher that 110.
You’re very generous...................
100%…Kammy and AOC level dumb….😳😳😳
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