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Justice Souter to retire from SCOTUS?
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Death_Machine
Slaytanic Warrior
Yikes! Get ready for some grandstanding & hardcore politicking from the right if that is the case.
Death_Machine
Slaytanic Warrior
No it is not. If me & a black woman are applying for a job & our skills are equal then I am denied the job on the basis of my color & gender. That is racist................. hell, it is sexist too!That's always been a false statement
No it is not. If me & a black woman are applying for a job & our skills are equal then I am denied the job on the basis of my color & gender. That is racist................. hell, it is sexist too!
Wrong. If a black woman and you are equally qualified, you are more likely to get the job. If the black woman is demonstrably more qualified, you are more likely to get the job. If you are utterly incompetent, you are more likely to get the job. AA has not changed that. It's only partially leveled the field.
Death_Machine
Slaytanic Warrior
If you don't mind my asking, how long have you been in the workforce?
Death_Machine
Slaytanic Warrior
How about your first job that counted as something you might make a career of, or your first job after you got your degree.
What has that got to do with anything? I haven't lost out on any jobs do to AA.
AA has been in effect for decades. You don't see a lot of blacks with superior jobs to whites. You don't see them making as much money as whites. The idea that AA has disadvantaged whites is idiotic.
AA has been in effect for decades. You don't see a lot of blacks with superior jobs to whites. You don't see them making as much money as whites. The idea that AA has disadvantaged whites is idiotic.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
What's really ironic is that Clarence Thomas would have never gone to Yale to get his law degree if it wasn't for AA. Then he did all he could to dismantle it as the head of the EEOC under Ronnie Raygun after he got that appointment due to being a token black Uncle Tom. He is by far the most lightweight Supreme Court justice of all time.
Shekwan
Kim Chi Quaffing Celt
Do people say SCOTUS in the US like its a word? Like instead of "Supreme Court" they say "Scotus".
Not really, no. A few of us tend to say "the Supremes", but most people say the Supreme Court. SCOTUS is a shorthand in writing, and pretty much only used, AFAIK, when the target audience for the writing knows similar shorthand.
Shekwan
Kim Chi Quaffing Celt
Yeah I thought it would be odd if people did, but that always how its written. Which I find equally odd because theres often no ambiguity about what Supreme Court the article is referring to.
Also had a lecturer last year who said POTUS and SCOTUS like they were words so I was wondering if it was common. I'm not quite sure if he was American himself though, he had a really weird hybrid Irish/American accent.
Also had a lecturer last year who said POTUS and SCOTUS like they were words so I was wondering if it was common. I'm not quite sure if he was American himself though, he had a really weird hybrid Irish/American accent.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
I think I covered that with:
Yeah, without any of the salient details...
I find it hilarious how much AA bothers most reactionaries even though the vast majority have never been in a position where it was used to their disadvantage.
POTUS is something not more than a handful of Americans ever heard until the TV show "The West Wing" popularized it, maybe 7-8 years ago. SCOTUS is sort of an offshoot of that. i note that the spellcheck on Firefox does not recognize either as words.
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No, it's something internet trolls pick up from internet lawyers. I bet if I walked around saying POTUS and SCOTUS people would think I was trying to speak Latin.
Death_Machine
Slaytanic Warrior
Working for a black owned company provides me with some perspective to this. AA does matter for individuals & companies. I'd go so far to say that the only reason my company is still working at the site I'm contracted to is because we are minority owned............ It is no different for employers looking @ who they hire.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Or they are merely handy acronyms.
So what you are telling me is that the fact that, as a white man, you will make more in your life than a black man of similar qualifications, and that you have 50-100% better chance of landing any particular job you are going for just isn't enough for you?
The fact that a few of them get a chance to succeed does not change the fact that us white folk still have every advantage.
Death_Machine
Slaytanic Warrior
That's it? What? No post on the evils and injustices of this country that made such rules necessary? Amazing. You are to be commended.
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