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Law Professor Argues US Constitution Is Racist And Sexist
Summit News ^ | 7/2/20

Posted on 07/03/2020 5:20:56 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

A law professor at the University of Texas-Austin has called for the US Constitution to be ‘updated’, claiming that it has ‘racist words’ and that it is written in ‘gendered language’.

Writing in The Hill this week, Richard Albert stated that the document’s “gendered and racist words stand in the way of true reconciliation in this divided country and have no place in any modern society.”

“The Constitution is replete with obsolete and outdated language that weakens rather than enhances the feeling of belonging that a constitution should generate among a country’s citizens,” the professor proclaims.

The ‘racist’ part of the Constitution, Albert claims, comes in the 13th Amendment, despite the fact that it actually abolishes slavery.

Albert argues that the Fugitive Slave Clause remains, claiming it serves as “a painful reminder of America’s original sin.”

Albert also argues that because all pronouns in the Constitution are male, it is discriminatory.

“Imagine how schoolchildren must feel when they read the Constitution in their basic civics course. Some will be made to feel less than welcome in their own country… The highest law of the land creates a hierarchy of citizenship.” he writes.

The professor also argues against claims that altering the Constitution as it was written would water it down, claiming that if “racist and gendered terms” are removed, then the Constitution “would celebrate equality and inclusion, and give Americans a text proudly to call their own — one in which they would see themselves and their hopes reflected.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: austin; richardalbert; sedition
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To: Bigg Red

A whole board of morons


21 posted on 07/03/2020 5:35:40 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Apparently it doesn’t require very many brains cells to be a college professor. What a maroon!


22 posted on 07/03/2020 5:36:17 PM PDT by FlyFisher
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To: Altura Ct.

Get out of the country, you Leftist SOB !


23 posted on 07/03/2020 5:36:57 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Altura Ct.
Fair enough..."update" it.Simply have the update(s) pass both houses of Congress and then have it/them approved by 38 state legislatures.

Easy peasy!

25 posted on 07/03/2020 5:37:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: SanchoP
He's canuck

I disagree. He's no hoser. He's an invader from a 3rd world sh!@hole, with a piece of paper saying he's a Canadian or American.

26 posted on 07/03/2020 5:38:04 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Altura Ct.

The US Constitution is one of the most inspired and beautiful political documents ever. The Constitution created the United States of America, one of the freest and greatest nations of all time.

Satan and his Leftist minions have always hated America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. This is a direct attack on the U S Constitution which is a direct attack on America. Meet the attack with full measure of force.

Regardless of the Left’s ridiculous definitions of the these ridiculous, undefined, and vague terms of “racist” and “sexist”, the Constitution and America are the greatest political and national entities ever.

They may not be perfect, but they are way ahead of whatever is in second place. This professor and the Left can go to hell where thy apparently would rather be than in this blessed land.

Please, just go.


27 posted on 07/03/2020 5:40:42 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: FlyFisher

I beginning to think some idiot “professors” should be exiled for the rest of their completely worthless lives. What a seditionist traitorous nitwit .


28 posted on 07/03/2020 5:40:43 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Altura Ct.

Communist Goals for the Takeover of America, first exposed in 1960:

1. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

2. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

3. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

4. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

5. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

6. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

7. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

8. Gain control of all student newspapers.

9. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

10. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
11. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

12. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

13. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

14. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

15. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

16. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

17. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”

18. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

19. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

20. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

21. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.”

22. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

23. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

24. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

25. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

26. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand (or treat).

27. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

28. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.


29 posted on 07/03/2020 5:42:09 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Altura Ct.

“...gendered and racist words stand in the way of true reconciliation in this divided country and have no place in any modern society.”

Sure it allowed Dick the fake UT-law intellectual to speak freely, have an “education” and a career that apparently is overpaying him. But Dick, we’ll honor your freedom to speak, tenure and contract to pay you despite your craziness and intellectual shallowness, none of this would be done in Cuba or China or Russia with their new and approved egalitarian constitutions. Our Constitution seems like a brilliant document to me ... even allows for amendments. Dick is probably too lazy to do the heavy lifting for a Constitutional convention - and live with the results that he won’t like. Our Founders protected us from being governed by people like Dick. Happy 4th of July and God Bless America!!!


30 posted on 07/03/2020 5:43:03 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Altura Ct.

The Constitution is dead. Long live the Constitution.

It’s not living and breathing.

I’m not smart enough to give a better answer.

I tried and kept getting lost :)


31 posted on 07/03/2020 5:43:38 PM PDT by dp0622 (TRUMP!)
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To: Altura Ct.
Speaking of genders



32 posted on 07/03/2020 5:44:05 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Altura Ct.

Did anyone check the good professor for alien implants to his brain


33 posted on 07/03/2020 5:46:55 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: Altura Ct.

Defund the universities.


34 posted on 07/03/2020 5:47:17 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Impala64ssa

Bi golly, I think you are correct.


35 posted on 07/03/2020 5:48:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Trump stands with us to preserve the Republic. Biden submits to those wanting to burn it all down.)
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To: Altura Ct.

“Professor”, “University”......nough said.


36 posted on 07/03/2020 5:49:16 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: Altura Ct.

37 posted on 07/03/2020 5:50:58 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Why do Democrats support terrorism?)
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To: bkopto

Could be,I just took that his TU bio page and that was it.


38 posted on 07/03/2020 5:52:23 PM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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To: napscoordinator

I agree...I’m glad I’m old...I fear for my grandkids...


39 posted on 07/03/2020 5:53:19 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Altura Ct.

Let’s “update” academia to Americans only. Some people don’t deserve the label.


40 posted on 07/03/2020 5:53:57 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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