https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rogan-spotify-covid-white-house-b2005488.html white house has some opinions on how spotify should manage joe rogan. white house needs to fuck the fuck off and stop telling private business how free speech works
Right. As if I'd be shocked or get myself worked up over what some racist says on a message board. I will say this, though. I am certain it gave him a thrill to type it.
isnt it literally racism for biden to eliminate people from supreme court consideration based on race? what if an indigenous person or maybe a 2nd gen immigrant from india was super competent and deserving?
To answer what @Rex won't...yes. Riddle me this Rexie, how could any of this happen if America is systemically racist? Wouldn't the racist have put some sort of barrier up to prevent it? Or are there more non-racist then racist? I'll wait...
but there is some racism in the system. for example small business loans for minority owned business, and govt contracts favoring minority owners, and even health policies prioritizing treatment for non-whites. plus the SC is about to take the case of asians discrimnated against for entry to harvard and UNC and being passed over in favor of blacks. these racist policies are embedded in "the system"
When Biden nominates a black woman for the Supreme Court she WILL be the most qualified candidate for the position. What does "most qualified" mean? Was Neil Gorsuch more qualified than Merrick Garland? When it came time to make his nomination and trump filled out his list and every last one of them was white, did trumpians scream that he was basing his nominations on whiteness instead of qualifications, or did they immediately accept that no blacks or Latinos or Asians could possibly crack the top eleven? Did trumpians wail about a race-based nomination? When Brett Kavanaugh lied multiple times during confirmation hearings (and no honest person can deny that he did) did he fail the qualifications test for a position that's supposed to require integrity? And, oh, by the way, he was white only coincidentally? Is Amy Coney Barrett white only coincidentally? Amazing it is that no black person, no Latino, no Asian could ever crack trump's top eleven, top twelve, thirteen.... thousand? Back to the matter of Biden's choice for a black woman: Yes, she WILL be the most qualified candidate for the position, because the current politically-underrepresented perspectives and opinions of being a black and being a woman are the most necessary qualifications. Is it racist? Racial, certainly, racist, of course not. Other candidates will not be excluded because they're white, or because they're Latino, or because they're Asian, but because they're not black. Antagonism is a necessary component of racism, and while trump has certainly displayed antagonism toward non-whites Biden does not harbor nor is motivated by animosity toward people because of their race. And who's to say, anyway, that a black woman's education out in the world, there on the streets, within the community, are inferior (i.e. less qualified) than some checklist of some academically-privileged other? Now, what about the constitutionality of it all? Biden is picking a black woman for political purposes, not for race purposes, and it was only three years ago that the Supreme Court, itself, dominated by rightists, even, declared that it's perfectly constitutional to manipulate government structures according to political ends, even when race is the dominant factor underlying the restructure. So, a rightist wingnut can't yell "unconstitutional!" without being an obvious hypocrite, and can't yell "racist!" without accusing five of their own justices of being so.
