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Originally Posted by aceventura3
That is b.s. when it come to the law. Our goal is to live in a world where the law is truly blind. Her comment suggests we are making no progress in that regard. Are liberals throwing up the white (pardon the pun) flag on King's dream?
alito, indicated what I have said, that we all have biases, our goal with the law should be to minimize those biases.[COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]
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Alito said that his family's struggles with discrimination made him more aware of that. A very similar position to what she said.
And who said anything about justice not being colorblind?
In any case, the way to achieve a so called colorblind society is not to pretend that we are currently a colorblind society. She raised a pertinent empirical issue: why is it that every landmark decision that reversed previous positions on segregation and discrimination necessarily had a minority either on the bench or arguing the case. And her response is that while the men who tried those cases before may have been wise, they lacked any first hand experience in the matter to fully understand the perspective of the discriminated.
And she never once claimed that these minorities then should be biased in one way or the other, and as her record shows, she hasnt been biased one way or the other.
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Seems some want to pick and choose their "context" reference points.
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Claiming that hot is actually cold doesn't make it so. I (and others) am saying that you should look at the entire speech. You are the one who is picking and choosing things from what she said.
Looking at the entire speech is certainly no "picking and choosing." Refusing to discuss anything but a misinterpretation of one isolated sentence is.