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I can see the "republican" part, since they have to deal with requests from the government, but "white" and "male"? Do sex and race really have that much bearin
by Camillo 13y ago
I can see the "republican" part, since they have to deal with requests from the government, but "white" and "male"? Do sex and race really have that much bearing on one's thinking about legal matters, especially at the ostensibly high level of a federal court?
- ck2 13y agoWe have people stop-and-frisked for being black and people being taken off planes for flying-while-muslim. You don't think race has anything to do with how people experience things in this world?
- cobrausn 13y agoI am straight, white, formerly republican, and find all of those things apalling when they happen. I didn't need to get burned by the fire to recognize that it burns.
- pessimizer 13y agoMany people do.
- gohrt 13y agoYou are unfortunately a rare, um, breed.
- cobrausn 13y agoWait, did I just get racially profiled?
- jonknee 13y agoDo you honestly not see any advantage of having people with a range of life experiences on a court? Especially on a court that is primarily tasked with making secret rulings to spy on [mostly] non-white people.
- malandrew 13y agoI suggest you read this blog post by David Simon, creator of the Wire, which was posted on HN a few days ago: http://davidsimon.com/the-nigger-wake-up-call/ http://davidsimon.com/the-nigger-wake-up-call/
- gohrt 13y agoI finally comprehend how David Simon continues to argue that domestic surveilance is not a problem. He thinks that the "Left" (his term) don't care enough about bad government actors when it affects poor black people, and so now, when bad government actors threaten members of the Left, they have no right to complain about bad government actors ruining a theoretically sound program. He's essentially trolling the Left, refusing to join them in accusing the government of having bad actors, holding his support hostage until they join him in taking down the bad actors everywhere else in government.