First of all, get well soon Pinprick. — Tobias
No. The difference is in the legitimacy. — Tobias
Hmm, do you take antibiotics when you are ill? And if you do, do you take them indefinitely? You might say 'ahh but antibiotics is not a good thing, but a necessary evil'. — Tobias
Why would that one 'actually make a difference' and the other one would not? — Tobias
It is all a matter of the goals you wish to attain. — Tobias
competence' may well be perspectival, bringing a dfferent perspective to the table may make the institution as a hole more competent. — Tobias
It harms you more because you already have less options to begin with. — Tobias
some people thought they were superior to others and thought up this whole classification of peoples they subjugated, based on things like skin color, facial and bodily features etc. — Tobias
preferential treatment policies — Tobias
In the abstract, maybe not; you're objection, however, is both ahistorical and politically obtuse. Biden's selection of a well-qualified Black Woman jurist only begins to redress centuries-long legacy of state-sanctioned racial and gender exclusion. As I've pointed already, no harm is being done except maybe to fragile egos of entitled (mostly comparatively less or unqualifed) White Men who may feel slighted by not even being considered. Tell me, 'prick, how should substantive equality be achieved in 21st c. America without White Men power-sharing with (therefore deselecting other White Men in favor of) historically excluded Non-White Women & Men. :brow:I just mean power-sharing doesn’t justify racial discrimination — Pinprick
Since when is it a matter of mere "political expedience" for a duely elected politician to keep a campaign promise to the greater share of his or her constituents? — 180 Proof
Political context matters. Ahistorical, decontextualized, hypothetical objections to POTUS keeping this particular campaign promise are vacuous exercises in rationalizing the status quo (aka "White grievence identity politics"). :mask: — 180 Proof
You stretch the notion of "political expedience" so far to include campaigning when it usually refers to governing that you've rendered it meaningless. — 180 Proof
Expediency means doing what is convenient rather than what is morally right.
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Political expediency, rather than economic need, will determine who gains from the conflict.
This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
You ducked the question of who's being harmed. — 180 Proof
Anything which is politically expedient does harm by allowing a token gesture to take heat off any real-world reparation for the harms systematic racism has caused. — Isaac
Then, in effect, you accuse POTUS, an old White Man, of "identity politics" when his candidacy and Administration is a repudiation of White Identity Politics. — 180 Proof
Simply then, is it your position that POTUS should not appoint a well-qualified Black woman jurist to SCOTUS? — 180 Proof
if kind of artificially adding diversity is a thing we do, isn't that making an assumption of the courts being politically biased — TiredThinker
Tell me, 'prick, how should substantive equality be achieved in 21st c. America without White Men power-sharing with (therefore deselecting other White Men in favor of) historically excluded Non-White Women & Men — 180 Proof
Which is better?
1. Hey, here's a judge, she's a black woman?
2. Hey, here's a black woman, she's a judge? — Agent Smith
In Jackson's befuddlement when asked the question she seemed at least understand that it has to do with biology as she she said, "I'm not a biologist. — Harry Hindu
the nominee cannot explain the difference between a woman and a man. — RussellA
The Democratic President specifically asked for a woman rather than a man, and yet the nominee cannot explain the difference between a woman and a man.
If the nominee does not know whether they are a woman or a man, then perhaps they should recuse themselves from the nomination, as the President specifically asked for a woman. — RussellA
Clearly not.Senator, have you no decency; at long last, Sir, have you no sense of decency left? — J. Welsh, Army-McCarthy Hearings 1954
Wrong. It has to do with the extreme left's fetish with sex/gender and using it to make victims out of people to get votes. It also has to do with Republicans, Independents and moderate Democrats concern over how a warped sense of sex/gender is an infringement on the equal representation for women.She is well aware of the trap that was laid. It has to do with the Republicans obsession with transgender people. — Fooloso4
It's actually very simple, but in order to maintain the mass delusion, you have to create more lies which makes it seem more complicated than it actually is.The biology of gender is not a simple matter of male vs female. — Fooloso4
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