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They should have called it On the Basis of Race


"Ginsburg, on the other hand, has hired only one African American law clerk in her 25 years on the Supreme Court. This is an improvement from her 13-year tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, when Ginsburg never had any black clerks. When this issue was raised during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1993, Ginsburg said: “If you confirm me for this job, my attractiveness to black candidates is going to improve.” This remains a promise unfulfilled."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-learn-something-from-brett-kavanaugh/2018/10/15/b8974a86-cd77-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.090af425bab7

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RUT-ROH!

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Are you sayin' that Gator doesn't like black people.

We should call Kanye!

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If not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

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LOL! That's funny. It doesn't apply to ALL leftists (i.e. moi), but you're right in principle. The vast majority of 'liberals' and 'leftists' talk the talk, but are too greedy, self-serving, ambitious and supremacist to walk the walk. Damn hypocrites.

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You are correct. It was a generalization and as most generalizations go, there are always exceptions.

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White Middle/Upper-Class 'Feminism', man. I'm telling you. A lot of the heroes of privileged white rich women are *extremely problematic* when it comes to anyone who isn't rich and white...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/suffrage-movement-racism-black-women.html

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“If you confirm me for this job, my attractiveness to black candidates is going to improve.”


What, black folks didn't find her attractive?

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