The US Supreme Court

[Tero]

More wedding cakes for gays
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/ju ... y-colorado
but the request was fake.

[Tero]

The court has been on a 30 year trip of Clarence Thomas grievances. Already his confirmation hearing turned him completely against the left.

And his salary is not enough. That is why he is forced to take free trips from rich friends.

[Brian Peacock]

No more woke college admissions.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics ... index.html
At his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1991, Clarence Thomas said that affirmative action can undermine the “self-esteem and self-respect” of the people it’s supposedly helping. On that day, Thomas sat before the U.S. Senate having accumulated decades of achievement—and having benefited from race-based preferences every step of his way.

How many students did he talk to?

[pErvinalia]

Conservatives don't care about reality. They are only concerned with pushing their conservative morality.

[Sean Hayden]

He’s probably right, but so what? Are we supposed to believe he’s consistently applying this kind of metric in all his decisions?

[Svartalf]

Who?, I'l lost the course of the thread

[Sean Hayden]

I was talking about Thomas who said that affirmative action can undermine the “self-esteem and self-respect” of the people it’s helping.

[macdoc]

conservative morality.

immorality nothing moral about those fuckwits

[Tero]

No more woke college admissions.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics ... index.html
At his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1991, Clarence Thomas said that affirmative action can undermine the “self-esteem and self-respect” of the people it’s supposedly helping. On that day, Thomas sat before the U.S. Senate having accumulated decades of achievement—and having benefited from race-based preferences every step of his way.

How many students did he talk to?

Who knows. It's social science. You do the math in your head and conclude that you are right by dismissing any that you feel like.

[Svartalf]

I was talking about Thomas who said that affirmative action can undermine the “self-esteem and self-respect” of the people it’s helping.

It sure did not undermine his

[Brian Peacock]

He’s probably right, but so what? Are we supposed to believe he’s consistently applying this kind of metric in all his decisions?

I can understand how "I only got here coz I'm black" could be dispiriting. Nobody likes tokenism, particularly the tokenised. But doesn't affirmative action try to acknowledge and mitigate the fact that not everybody starts from the same place, and that some demographics are disproportionately disadvantaged in terms of their educational opportunities, and thus in their educational outcomes etc?

[Sean Hayden]

Yes, that’s the idea. But how’s the saying go again: a million deaths is a statistic, but some kid not going to Harvard because of Affirmative Action is a tragedy? Yeah, that’s it I think.

[Sean Hayden]

I was talking about Thomas who said that affirmative action can undermine the “self-esteem and self-respect” of the people it’s helping.

It sure did not undermine his

We're human, for many of us all paths lead to imposter syndrome.

Anyway, we should be able to take many of his decisions and imagine ways in which somebody may be negatively impacted emotionally. (e.g. abortion rights) What I wouldn't expect to find is consistency regarding appeals to those emotional impacts as justification for his decisions. Limiting access to abortion can undermine a woman's ______________. ...is probably not anywhere in his writings on the subject.

[Svartalf]

Worse impostor, liar and overall sleazeball than thomas has to be frump class

[Sean Hayden]

Can you imagine that guy without his dad's money and influence? How would he function?