Old white guy here. It seems to me that black people and female people have this in common:

[Atticus]

both have to be smarter and work harder in order to succeed professionally.

Is there really any genuine concern that a black woman nominated by President Biden to the SCOTUS won't be extremely well qualified?

Seriously?

[Mr.Bill]

1. You make a very good point. n/t

[abqtommy]

2. This old white guy has no concern at all. Seriously. nt

[Aussie105]

58. Same here.

But they will be looking keenly for slipups, you can be sure of that.

Then there will be a torrent of fake outrage.

[brush]

3. Spot on. The republicans know this but are doing their fake...

clutching of pearls routine at the outrageousness of such a thing.

[unblock]

4. Republicans are scared to death of well qualified judges.

[monkeyman1]

12. plus being female & smart !! that against the republican grain !

[DENVERPOPS]

23. Bingo on that

a high school student with no degree or law degree would wup the ass of Judge "I Like Beer"...........
or even some conservative judges who have been on the bench for awhile

[Skittles]

5. women and POC have to be twice as good to be considered half as good

it's been that way for a long, long time

[LoisB]

7. A VERY long time.

[Skittles]

8. the saying used to end with, "LUCKILY, THAT IS NOT DIFFICULT"

while it may not be difficult, it is painful not being given the automatic consideration so many white men get

I mean, seriously, how hard would it be to find a black woman more qualified than that piece of SHIT Kavanaugh.

[LoisB]

18. Heck, I think I'm more qualified than Kavanaugh. I think you hit the nail on the head. Why

shouldn't a qualified black woman be given automatic consideration?

[Skittles]

26. that's the thing

too many white men automatically assume the best candidate is a white male, and if anyone else is selected, well, that's affirmative action!

[Catherine Vincent]

28. Yep!

They make me sick!

[demigoddess]

33. not necessarily, they just want every one to be white and male. qualified or not.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Hell

you could find an amoeba more qualified than Kavanaugh.........

[stage left]

29. not to mention

Barrett.

[LoisB]

31. Indeed.

[LoisB]

30. So true, so true.

[happy feet]

38. I've never heard the saying ending

"luckily, that is not difficult'. Of course, the Kavanaugh bar is extremely low, but generally POC and women have to work twice as hard for most opportunities in life. and that 'is difficult' and disheartening just to have a chance at equal opportunity/consideration.

[Scrivener7]

6. Seriously. The cries of "affirmative action" from republiQans also are ridiculous.

You wanna see affirmative action? Look at 200 years of affirmative action favoring old white guys on the Supreme Court.

[calimary]

40. THANK YOU!!!!!

[2naSalit]

9. Only in the minds of racists. ...nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. The GOP concern comes from the fact...

That the nominee WILL be extremely well qualified. They don’t care for that.

[calimary]

41. And that's just too damn bad.

[madaboutharry]

11. In my own frame of reference

I have found professional Black women in particular to be highly competent. I think you’re right, it was a steeper climb for them. The hard work shows.

I think all this bullshit from republicans is nothing more than showing the racism that lives in their heart. They can’t hide it. Maybe the don’t even want to.

[alfredo]

19. They are afraid that when whites become the minority,

they will receive the same shabby treatment they doled out.
Take your licks like an adult, you know like what Obama says, “eat your peas.”

[OMGWTF]

47. BINGO! They know they're racist POS and that the shit they do to POC is wrong.

[alfredo]

60. Fear motivates them

[Jedi Guy]

56. "Take your licks like an adult."

That sounds a lot more like vengeance than equality to me. The former is not necessary. The latter is.

[alfredo]

61. Acknowledging a great wrong has been done is taking your licks.

[Jedi Guy]

62. With respect, that's not at all how I interpreted your remark.

In the context I'm familiar with, "taking your licks" means accepting punishment for wrongdoing, not simply acknowledging that wrongdoing has occurred.

[alfredo]

63. With acknowledgment you accept the consequences.

[Jedi Guy]

65. Yes, which means working towards equality.

The way you're phrasing this it sounds as if you want punishment, not equality and reconciliation. So like I said when we began discussing this, it sounds a lot like you're interested in vengeance. I don't particularly see how that's helpful to the cause of equality for all. Rather the reverse, in fact.

[alfredo]

67. It is up to the individual going forward. Acknowledgment is a first step.

Learning how to help, and unlearning old ways is another.
Eating your peas is doesn’t mean they should be punished. It is dealing with how one feels about their past. It could be shame or self anger. Those feelings could form the basis of future actions.

I’m not a big fan of should.

Malcom X and George Wallace became enlightened, and became better men. Malcom became enlightened on the Haj when he prayed alongside white Muslims. He could no longer see whites as the devil. George became wheelchair bound during his run for president against Nixon. The was paralyzed by a gun wielding would be assassin, Arthur Bremen. During his rehab, he was nursed by a black man. The unconditional love and care given to him melted his heart. He disavowed his hate.

BTW one of my school chums was George Wallace’s nephew. He never changed his racist views, even after his uncle’s revelation.

[Atticus]

66. For what it's worth, I did not find anything wrong with your comment. nt

[Marcuse]

13. Negative Action.

[czarjak]

15. Fair and Balanced

[calimary]

25. Well, I sure would feel as though THIS high bench would give me a fair hearing as a women.

And I'm white like all nine of 'em are. But that wouldn't count.

[IronLionZion]

50. There is diversity in their ties

since 2 of them must have been appointed to fill some quota for bow tie wearers

[Oldtimeralso]

14. Just remember

The mango moron needs the lowly educated.

[calimary]

42. Ooooh, like that one! "Mango moron"!

[alwaysinasnit]

16. Well, I'm kinda liking the idea of a black female on the SC, especially if she is of the caliber

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of the two black women who currently have TFG's balls in a vise (NYAG Leticia James, and prosecutor Fanni Willis).

[OMGWTF]

46. THIS! THIS! THIS!

[MyOwnPeace]

53. Oh, you mean those 'nasty racists?'

There's probably a posse from Texas looking for them now, 'inspired' by his awesome oratory at his last hate rally.

[alwaysinasnit]

55. lol

[halfulglas]

17. It's the old racist Republican sleight of hand to fool the base.

Convince the gullible that the person next to them is taking advantage of them and getting something they don't deserve they are the ones running the game.

Poor Kavanaugh, that terrible experience those Democrats put him through. Trump's SC noms should be investigated for lying under oath during their hearings - of course they believe in settled law, sure.

[JoeOtterbein]

20. Err...?

Duh???

[Joinfortmill]

21. 👍

[RANDYWILDMAN]

22. Fake repug concern and racist outrage is what it's all about.

Boof boy
Phoney barrett aka the hand maiden
and Clarence

What do they have in common, oh that's right NO SHAME !!

Repubs have to yell and scream about the nominee, cause all the stupid shenanigans they played on the last 3 unjust nominations

[Greybnk48]

27. President Kennedy insisted on a female doctor for that very reason.

(paraphrasing) JFK said a woman doctor would have to be twice as smart and work twice as hard to get through any med school full of white guys. Therefore, he preferred to have a woman doc. Smart man.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kennedy-appoints-first-female-presidential-physician

[relayerbob]

32. Yep. You nailed it

But of course, the GOP doesn't want a well-qualified judge in there. They want an easily controlled puppet.

[world wide wally]

34. I can name 6 old white guys who suck at that job.

Make that 5 old white guys and one old black guy who wants to be a white guy.

[Skittles]

54. you got that right

yes indeed

[wryter2000]

35. They're scrambling for an excuse not to approve her

They know whomever he nominates will be super-duper qualified.

[Collimator]

36. The only people who can ascend to the upper levels. . .

. . . of any organization while steeped in personal mediocrity are well-connected White males. Everybody else has to work to get anywhere.

This does not mean, of course, that all White males are mediocre. But the idea that there isn't at least one Black female judge in this country who is more qualified than Kavanaugh is a patent absurdity.

[uponit7771]

37. +1, there were more 25 - 29 yr old women who completed college degrees in 2000 than

... men but 20 years later that age groups C levels still looks like pale, male and Yale ... or whatever mediocre college there is.

Humans will hire who they're comfortable with, that science fact should play into how HR depts act

[calimary]

43. "Pale, male, and Yale"!

Like that one! Has a nice ring to it!

[hay rick]

39. But appointing a Black woman is affirmative action!

A history of 108 white male Supreme Court Justices and 0 Black female Justices is just one of those massive coincidences that's bound to crop up in a colorblind, nonsexist society.

[Caliman73]

44. No. Nothing valid.

Especially since Trump put Amy Coney-Barrett up for nomination and many of the judges that were put up for lower courts were considered by the ABA to be "unqualified" for their appointments.

What we have with respect to the Conservative "concern" is just your standard racism. All of the idiots are our talking about how President Biden is "discriminating" against others to pick a Black Woman as if President Biden would just haul some random, high school graduate with no legal experience, Black Woman and put her on the court.

All of the women that are on President Biden's short list are extremely qualified and many have already been through the process of appointment and voted on by both Democrats and Republicans. As Jen Psaki said today, there were never any objections raised when Conservative presidents stated their intentions to put women on the bench. There is no real history of challenging the qualifications of candidates before their names are even submitted. If Conservatives have specific objections after they know the nominee, then that can be a valid thing. Right now it is just the fact that Black women are being looked at exclusively (or likely, at all) is the problem for Conservatives.

[OMGWTF]

45. Traitor Tot is skeeeeeeeeerd of strong black women, which is why is it so delicious that two AGs

fitting that description, may be the ones to finally take that mofo down.

[ancianita]

48. Oh, come ON. It's Kennedy who can't tell a law book from a JCrew catalog. Case closed.

Let the filthy racist Kennedy and GOP CHOKE ON IT. Fuck 'em ALL.

[IronLionZion]

49. When America has never had a black woman on the Supreme Court

it's absolutely racist for conservatives to assume that whoever Biden appoints won't be qualified simply because she's black. They didn't seem to have a problem with Amy Coney Barrett's complete lack of experience. There is affirmative action for unqualified young conservatives apparently.

[CTyankee]

51. I'm so goddamned sick of snippy remarks about any kind of promotion of black women being

somehow "lesser" talents. This from white males I know.

[Fla Dem]

52. I've known that for 50 years.

[roamer65]

57. Very much true.

My sister is in a male dominated field.

She has to work her tail off whereas similar white male coworkers are allowed to slack much more.

[soldierant]

59. It's been said that a woman has tobe twice as good in order to be considered

half as good. And the same is pretty much so for people of color.

Which means a blac woman would have to be four times as good in order to be considered a quasrter as good - which should hold both by addition and by multiplication,

So, yes. There is genuine concern among the ctitically ignorant.

[Patton French]

64. The front runner

Has better bonefides than the men on the court