Posted on 04/21/2022 6:55:46 AM PDT by grundle
Video at https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1516159512910118915
“Listen, racism is a horrific evil in this country. It is also an insult that the Left tosses around casually.”
Senator Ted Cruz took his podcast into what he labelled “the belly of the leftist beast” this week by visiting Yale, where he schooled a particularly woke student who openly accused him of being racist over his questioning of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Footage shows the student, named Maia Cook, attempting to couch her accusations in faux politeness, telling Cruz “thank you so much for coming to Yale this evening,” adding “it would appear to me that you already recognize the importance of new perspectives.”
She then dropped the act and told Cruz “it baffled me that you would ask such flagrantly racist questions to this exceedingly well-qualified candidate,” referring to Brown Jackson, before she was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
The student continued, “Your colleagues in the GOP promised a respectful and dignified hearing for Justice Jackson and, to me, you did not uphold this. So today I wanted to create a space where you might be able to challenge your own thinking, as prudent scholars often do. So, I’m here to ask you: What are two nice comments you can give about recent nominee Justice Jackson’s judicial experience besides from ‘she has an easy smile’?”
Cruz’s response is priceless as he noted how the left only lauds black and hispanic figures they agree with while being downright vitriolic, nasty and racist to those it doesn’t.
Cruz cited both Justice Clarence Thomas and Janice Rogers Brown, a Justice on the California Supreme Court – both black, and both despised and continually attacked by the left because of their conservative records.
“Do you think the Democrats were all sexist when they voted party line against Amy Coney Barrett?” Cruz also stated, adding “I’m willing to bet you don’t because she’s not a Liberal woman.”
“So, you can’t have it both ways which is that when a Democratic nominee has a certain characteristic, anyone who opposes them is racist or sexist or what have you. But, when a Republican nominee has those characteristics, it’s open season and you can go after them full force and the Left is righteous in doing so,” Cruz asserted.
“You said that my questioning of Judge Jackson was – you used the term ‘racist’,” Cruz responded to the student, adding “Listen, racism is a horrific evil in this country. It is also an insult that the Left tosses around casually.”
Referring to his questioning of Justice Brown Jackson, Cruz said “I could not disagree more deeply when you say it is racist to examine a judge based on their record,” noting that it is the “job of the Senate in the advice and consent process”
As we previously covered, Cruz took Ketanji Brown Jackson to task over both her record of lenient sentences for child porn offenders and for refusing to define what a woman is.
The establishment media attempted to spin Republican questioning of Brown Jackson’s record into some sort of racist conspiratorial “message To QAnon”.
Hardly obliterated.
Threatening to sue them for slander would be closer.
Having him arrested for threatening his life would be obliterated.
Had to be a black woman. Easy sentences for child abusers isn’t a factor as long as those exclusive qualifications were met. Anyone who disagrees is a racist and worse than Hitler.
Maybe, just maybe, the widespread weaselly, groveling, forelock-tugging responses of most Republicans to these crapulous ad hominin attacks is fading.
To his credit, Cruz was not and is not infected with the appeasement virus.
Trouble is the mass of useful idiots gobbling up memes has no critical thinking skills and sees nothing amiss with fallacious accusations.
That student is a horror that we now live with everyday. Vacuous eyes that reflect the shear horror within her of hearing an opposing view. She looks like she is about to have a breakdown. She cannot stand to even contemplate that what Cruz is saying may have a shred of logic and reason.
Instead, she just shakes her head like some brainwashed cultist.
“ NO NO NO NO NO NO!! I don’t like what you are saying and thus you are racist!!! That’s it!!! That is all. NO NO NO NO. I won’t hear anything else. Get me to my safe space. NOW!!!!!
She was white, and ‘obliterated’ is a fake headline.
This young woman is incredibly poorly informed, editorialized during her question (which she had to read), and, as was obvious from her negative head shaking during Cruz's answer, asked the question to grandstand - not to get an answer. It is precisely this rigid self-affirming hubris and lack of open-mindedness that has made too many university students and graduates into homogeneous drones.
Give Cruz credit here for fighting the fight and making good points.
Racism isn’t murdering the unborn, seeking to impose communistic ideology, depopulate humanity or destroy the nation.
Unless, of course, you include the anti-racists who not only do that but are true racists to their core.
AH. He’s all talk.
Mal-educated little Snowflake Maia using all her preceding adjectives.
Does she not realize how stoopit she sounds?
Cruz could have told her to sit down and shut up-
Children should be seen and not heard.
Next.
Slow Biden’s criteria for picking a Supreme Court Justice, which disqualified everyone who wasn’t black AND female, is the very definition of sexist and racist.
“Listen, racism is a horrific evil in this country. It is also an insult that the Left tosses around casually.”Too bad he had to agree, or at least obliquely pretend, with the lie that there is a racist problem in the US.
Precisely.
Agree, not a good reflection of the quality of education at Yale.
It was a pretty, young, white, woke, indoctrinated, leftist.
The future President Trump or deSantis should very early in their presidency say that due to this idiot and the earlier temper tantrum at the Federalist Society presentation that no Yale Law graduate will be accepted to work in the US government.
Marxism begat Critical Theory which is Cultural Marxism, designed to subvert and capture the institutions of a society.
Cultural Marxism begat Critical Legal Theory, which is Marxist lawfare, designed to harass and oppresses the society through its courts and legal community, wasting its treasure and corrupting its people.
Critical Legal Theory begat Critical Race Theory which is Marxist racism, designed to create permanently entitled, aggrieved and angry people, robbing them of their happiness and society of its peace and wellbeing.
Similarly we have Queer or Transgender Theory, Marxist faggotry, aimed at grooming perverted and insane people, also robbing children of innocence and so debasing them as to try to prevent even the possibility of repentance and salvation.
Which comes around to where it all began: that Marxism and socialistic ideas are demonic in origin.
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