Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from SCOTUS.

Trapper Gus wrote:

kingstonlake wrote:I guess saying you're going to nominate a black woman to the supreme Court was more important to people than dangling $1,000 a month in their face.

Election politics is the art of getting people to like you.

There are different buttons to push to get there.

Of course, laughing at the fact that Biden and the Progressives reduced child poverty for a year by 40% is odd, but you be you, dude.

Cameron wrote:I think Travis is right to point out that, while representation matters, the appearance of tokenism can also present an equal and opposite force that can be nearly as negative as the increased representation is positive (key word nearly, Biden should still follow through). Sort of like coaches in the NFL. There needs to be more minorities, but so often teams just toss an interview to a minority candidate to satisfy the Rooney rule when they've already all but hired a white guy. Would be nice if we could reach a place as society where we just recognize the need for more equal representation, take concrete steps to rectify that need, and say only that we have selected the most qualified candidate.

It always seems a bit uncouth when white guys like myself quote MLK, but something something content of one's character something something. We'll get there eventually.

MiamiSpartan wrote:

Cameron wrote:I think Travis is right to point out that, while representation matters, the appearance of tokenism can also present an equal and opposite force that can be nearly as negative as the increased representation is positive (key word nearly, Biden should still follow through). Sort of like coaches in the NFL. There needs to be more minorities, but so often teams just toss an interview to a minority candidate to satisfy the Rooney rule when they've already all but hired a white guy. Would be nice if we could reach a place as society where we just recognize the need for more equal representation, take concrete steps to rectify that need, and say only that we have selected the most qualified candidate.

It always seems a bit uncouth when white guys like myself quote MLK, but something something content of one's character something something. We'll get there eventually.

To me, the big difference is that the SCOTUS is supposed to represent the whole country, so it is important to have different perspectives of different groups. There are probably dozens of extremely qualified people that fit with Biden ideologically, don't have any terrible skeletons in the closet, etc. A few of those are probably black women. As long as they fit all the other criteria, then the perspective of a black woman I would be important to have.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

Motown Spartan wrote:

They only allow Clarence Thomas because he was nominated by a white male Republican Christian.

that.. plus, 'ol Clarence was smart enough to have a (white) wife who participated in the violent insurrection against democracy in America.

that plays well in Mio and similar parts.

kingstonlake wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

Election politics is the art of getting people to like you.

There are different buttons to push to get there.

Of course, laughing at the fact that Biden and the Progressives reduced child poverty for a year by 40% is odd, but you be you, dude.

I’m talking about ideas like giving out $1,000 a month as a universal basic income, Trapper.