Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing is just straight-up racism!

@HoraceGreenley [quote] You lack basic understanding of how the world works.[/quote] Wow, what a standard to aim for! In order to have a basic understanding of how the world works, I need to know the machinations of the confirmation hearings for a SCOTUS justice, do I? And I'm not even American... clearly I know nothing then 🙄

1. Well, first of all, your first explanation is utter BS. How can you think it's a perfectly reasonable and necessary part of the confirmation hearing to ask the nominee to define a woman when you posted this...?

https://similarworlds.com/police-law/court/4276510-Can-you-define-what-a-woman-is-Take-my-poll. I call BS.

2. Your CRT explanation I could almost believe, except that it was Ted Cruz who was asking. It is clear he was trying to scare white voters by implying that Jackson was a black radical who believes in “critical race theory” and would use her position on the court to put dangerous thoughts in the minds of poor, impressionable white children. It also defies belief that in the middle of a Senate confirmation hearing for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, he brings blown up pages from a childrens book and asks, in all seriousness, "do you agree that babies are racist?" I mean, what the actual fuck??. I will be extremely surprised if any White future nominees are asked questions about CRT.

3. And in that vein, are all the other current SCOTUS justices Original Constructionists? If not, were they asked if they were activists?

You can dress this up in all the appropriate and reasonable window dressing you want. The fact remains, the Republican committee's questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson was rude, disrespectful, misogynistic, crass, and inherently racist. Having seen some of your other posts and interacted with you, I can see you have no problem with this at all.

Still, she will be confirmed. Tough luck :)