Originally published at: Supreme Court Conservatives, Sauer Defend Trump on Haiti Racism in TPS Oral Arguments
Solicitor General John Sauer and several Supreme Court Justices on Wednesday sought to muddy the waters around whether President Trump’s comments that Haiti and other majority-black nations are “shithole countries” were racist. It came in oral arguments in two consolidated cases, Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, in which the fate of hundreds of…
Why did didnt they ask Thomas
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Believe me, I don’t need somebody on the SC to tell me if something or somebody is racist.
If it walks like duck and quakes like duck, it’s duck!
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This sums up the argument nicely: “Pipoly then said that under the law, racial classification is irrelevant. What matters is that “bare dislike of an unpopular group” is enough to invalidate the policy.” Alito probably didn’t realize how much of a smackdown this was.
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Alito prefers to divide populations into rich and non-rich.
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At one point, [Justice Samuel Alito] noted that he does not like “dividing up the people of the world arbitrarily into three racial groups.”
“I much prefer dividing them into ‘the haves’ and ‘the have nots.’”
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That’s right.
Oh, no, he does it by race, too. He just won’t admit to it.
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The game is defining racism out of existence, such that it can never be found to exist because the analysis is rigged, the standards of proof are deliberately made impossible, etc.
Make no mistake: when NOTHING is racism, EVERYTHING will become racism.
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Alito and the other 4 are too chickenshit to own it.
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Oh, no, racism again white people will be alive and well for a long time.
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