Posted on 09/22/2020 5:57:51 AM PDT by John W
The internet learned to love Ruth Bader Ginsburg, so it was not surprising that when news of her death broke Friday evening, social media lit up with outpourings of love and admiration for this diminutive octogenarian who had been cast as an iron-pumping, dissent-slinging legal ninja.
But those who celebrated her as a one-woman bulwark against the collapse of democracy might have been surprised by something else bubbling up. Within hours of her death, there also appeared snarking about the pop-hagiography around her, edged with insinuating questions about just how far-ranging her vision of equality was.
Some noted her poor record of hiring Black law clerks and her comments in 2016 (which she later apologized for) calling Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protests “dumb” and “disrespectful.”
Others re-upped long-standing critiques of RGB-mania, and perhaps even of the judge herself, as reflecting a myopic “white feminism.” On Twitter, there were calls to remember those “left behind” by the brand of feminism Ginsburg supposedly advanced, along with mocking references to the public grief over her death as a “white women’s 9/11.”
“What conception of women’s rights, and what kind of feminist movement, might have died with Ginsburg?” Melissa Gira Grant wrote in The New Republic, questioning what she called “the false idea of Ginsburg as liberal or feminist savior.”
The whiff of a backlash reflects long-standing tensions within feminism, as a movement sometimes criticized for being symbolized by, and primarily serving, middle-class white women has been challenged by a perspective that emphasizes the interplay of race, class, gender and other factors. It’s a tension that has only grown amid the Black Lives Matter protests of the past summer, as some have questioned whether a highly empowered older white woman ensconced in an elite institution was a fit hero for the moment.
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Never Woke Enough.
She was a liberal justice, nothing more, nothing less.
She was a nasty old crone. I condemn her for hanging on to that SCOTUS seat simply because she didn’t want President Trump to pick her replacement. It’s possible that if she had retired and tended to her health, she could have lived a little longer.
No matter, she’s gone... I’ll stop there.
No mention of faithful service to Oath of Office
“I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States; and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
What no BARF alert
NYT. Hello.
...What no BARF alert
Well, it IS the New York Times, what else do you expect...
I think of it as a suitable purgatory. She was so certain that Clinton was going to win that she denied Obama the opportunity to replace her,because she wanted the first female President to appoint a female liberal replacement to replace her.
When Clinton didn’t win, it became her Rison.
I think of it as a suitable purgatory. She was so certain that Clinton was going to win that she denied Obama the opportunity to replace her,because she wanted the first female President to appoint a female liberal replacement to replace her.
When Clinton didn’t win, it became her prison.
Anyone who takes feminism seriously is just plain stupid. Feminism at its core is nothing more than an anti-fertility cult that attracts Darwinian mutants. Ginzburg was what she was. She was an evil person who supported all abortion including grusome third trimester abortions. She supported and protected homosexuality and all its perverse permutations. The distorted and bent the Constitution to weaken, undermine and deconstruct the American nation. There was nothing good or “nice” about her.
She didn't want Barak Hussein Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm) to replace her, a Jewish matriarch. She was sure 'Illary would win and then, whammo!
Interestingly many of the most harsh commentary on RBG was her arrogance and unwillingness to take one for the team by not retiring when Zero could replace her with an even more fanatical leftist. She wasn’t the first political SC jurist but she was most definitely guided by leftist doctrine as are the Wide Latina and Broccoli Top.
There are too many post-election day variables to even consider leaving RBG’s replacement until next January. Get the most qualified conservative constitutionalist on the bench ASAP.
She was a federal government employee with a well paid job she couldn’t be fired from.
She selfishly held on to this job while gravely ill to fulfill a political goal.
If I were a ‘rat I’d be pissed that she didn’t retire on Obama’s watch, as I am sure many ‘rats are.
Ruth Gollum Ginsburg is dead. Let’s move on. Onward and upward.
She was a key player in the genocide of black babies; never forget!
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