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Amid the Outpouring for Ginsburg, a Hint of Backlash
New York Times via Yahoo News ^ | September 21., 2020 | Jennifer Schuessler

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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To: LeonardFMason

Maybe Thomas, Alito, and Roberts should bow out and allow
Trump to replace them with YOUNGER Conservative Judges.

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Mental abilities change in each of us over time. I’d
like to see a removal age of 72-75 for the justices.


41 posted on 09/22/2020 7:45:38 AM PDT by deport
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To: John W
a one-woman bulwark against the collapse of democracy

Gag me with a spoon!

ML/NJ

42 posted on 09/22/2020 8:26:46 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: deport

One at a time, yes, if we have an r senate.

The right thing to do.


43 posted on 09/22/2020 8:27:45 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: asinclair

We wouldn’t have President Trump under your rules so no thank you.


44 posted on 09/22/2020 8:27:55 AM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: John W

45 posted on 09/22/2020 8:45:44 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing.” -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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To: John W

In what way was Buzzy a “one-woman bulwark against the collapse of democracy”? Specifically.


46 posted on 09/22/2020 8:53:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: fwdude

Left or Right—I hate people being turned into tin saints. From the Media RBG could walk on water, heal the sick and make the Blind see. Even she would object to these over the top comments being made about her. She should have retired when Obama was President.


47 posted on 09/22/2020 9:30:20 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: stanne

Very true


48 posted on 09/22/2020 10:07:56 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Bon of Babble

The Reality:

49 posted on 09/22/2020 11:17:46 AM PDT by Oatka
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