Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020), aka the Notorious RBG, was on the US Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, from 1993 till her death in 2020. President Clinton, who named her to the court, called her “the Thurgood Marshall of gender-equality law”. She was a huge believer in gender equality and women’s rights and, by the time of her death, the main left-leaning voice on the court.
Her death clears the way for a third Trump judge on the court, solidifying its hard-right majority – and considerably increasing Trump’s own chances of winning the 2020 election should it be disputed and thrown to the Supreme Court as Biden v Trump (2020).
Gloria Steinem, a White feminist:
“Ruth’s work made me feel as if I was protected by the US Constitution for the first time.”
Ginsburg was:
- the second woman on the Supreme Court;
- one of the nation’s first female law professors;
- the first woman on the Harvard Law Review.
The measure of her success: In 1959, when she graduated top of her class at Columbia Law School, no top New York City law firm would hire her. That that now seems surprising is a measure of her success in helping to bring about gender equality. But that so many now despair at her death in 2020 is a measure of how fragile those gains still are.
Sexism: In the 1970s she fought court cases that would alter the legal landscape on questions of gender equality. Knowing that she would be facing male judges who did not think the law was sexist – even when it was written in a sexist way! – she often chose to champion the gender rights of men, thereby laying down the legal precedents to uphold the rights of women. She was able to persuade liberal judges by likening sexism to racism.
Ginsburg in 1975:
“a gender line … helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”
Abortion: She was forthright in her support of abortion (and birth control), seeing it as a necessary right if women were to become first-class citizens.
Racism: In Shelby County v Holder (2013), when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was gutted, she dissented, likening it to:
“throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
She was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn in New York City to Jewish immigrants. She went to James Madison High School in Brooklyn, the same public high school that Benie Sanders, Carole King and Judge Judy later went to. While she was at Cornell University (’54), Joseph McCarthy and other Republicans were fearmongering about communists – the Red Scare. It made her determined to become a lawyer:
“The McCarthy era was a time when courageous lawyers were using their legal training in support of the right to think and speak freely.”
How Ginsburg wants to be remembered:
“Just as someone who did whatever she could, with whatever limited talent she had, to move society along in the direction I would like it to be for my children and grandchildren.”
Requiescat in pace.
– Abagond, 2020.
See also:
- US Supreme Court:
- Thurgood Marshall
- Antonin Scalia
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Neil Gorsuch
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Anthony Kennedy
- Clarence Thomas
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- White Liberals
- Notorious
- The 2020 election for US president
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In Shelby County v Holder (2013), when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was gutted, she dissented, likening it to:
“throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
No greater words describe most, that for which she fought…Rest in Power, RBG…
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Rest In Peace and Power. She was an extraordinary woman.
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using voting rights to represent her stance on racism is misleading;Ginsburg had a mixed bag when it came to racism; especially criminal justice issues and indigenous issues; She also managed to hire only 2 black clerks on her entire term on the courts.
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@ Vernellia Randall
I have heard that too, but there are never specifics. Meanwhile Black Lives Matter gushed over her:
https://blacklivesmatter.com/statement-on-the-death-of-us-supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg/
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The individuals quoted by Indian Country Today have mostly positive things to say about RBG. It sounds like she may have started out with a poor record but then gained a better understanding of Native issues and tribal law later in her career:
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/a-true-champion-of-justice-ztICjkMsvE65ZjzpdIPc0Q
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Um, Vernellia… where do you get 2 black clerks? I’ve only heard of one during all her time on the courts https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-learn-something-from-brett-kavanaugh/2018/10/15/b8974a86-cd77-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html –meanwhile, you can tell someone like Kavanaugh really wants to give people who aren’t like him opportunities, based on his hiring. Meanwhile, RBG talked the talk, but, like most liberals, was incredibly hypocritical in practice. Four clerks every year at the SC–really important for starting young careers, as those are the people actually writing the opinions and they are recognized as future superstars in the legal world, so the fact that she only had one black clerk over all those years, 100+ interns total, while meanwhile people are saying more than 50% of her interns were jewish, tells you all you need to know about her. Use whatever means to advance herself and her own people and pretend to care about minorities to achieve power.
You guys don’t even understand you are being used by wicked people like this.
How about another RBG quote?
“Frankly I had thought that at the time [Roe vs. Wade] was decided,” Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, “there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.””
That’s how much she cares about the black community. Thanks to people like RGB, more than half of black babies in cities like NYC are still aborted every year…
That Marxist BLM is gushing over her tells you exactly how much they really care about black lives..
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@ biff
That you keep calling BLM “Marxist” tells me how little you care about the truth.
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abagond, as we’ve discussed before, I don’t say the rank and file people at BLM protests are all Marxist, but the leadership certainly is. One of the cofounders bragged about their Marxist training, as you well know.
This is from their website:
“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” it says on the page titled “What we believe.”
While I’m sure your leftist sources would say this is just a positive message about community, that is leftwing propaganda and lies. The destruction of the nuclear family (i.e., married mother and father parenting their own kids) has been the single worst thing for the black family in the last 60 years, leading to severe poverty and all kinds of bad results.
If you can’t see this, and the role organizations like BLM have played in distracting black communities from their real problems, then you are blind. But you say you can see, so you don’t get a pass. Again, pure projection in accusing me of not caring about “the truth.”
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“The destruction of the nuclear family (i.e., married mother and father parenting their own kids) has been the single worst thing for the black family in the last 60 years, leading to severe poverty and all kinds of bad results.”
The so-called ” destruction of the nuclear family”, is not the source of poverty and “all kinds of bad results” for Black families. Most poverty and other social ills that afflict low-income Black communities have more to do with external sources of inequality and violence such as discriminatory hiring practices, housing discrimination, underresourced schools and constant police harassment. There is also a lot of interference by social service agencies in Black families.
Most societies in the world operate through multigenerational extended family forms. That includes most Black people throughout the Americas and on the Continent of Africa. The majority of Black families include a collection of blood kin and friends accepted as family. That form of family has existed among Black people for generations.
Moreover, the nuclear family form is by its very nature fragile. It lacks the depth, connections and necessary redundancies that an extended family provides to all of its members. Extended families include grandparents who help provide childcare. In many nuclear families, elders are shipped off to nursing homes instead of being cared for by kin. Children and teens don’t have access to the connections and guidance of caring relatives who can step in when mothers and fathers are stressed, distracted or incapacitated, have abandoned the family or are dead.
In fact, many White families are more prone to breakdown as a result of adoption and worship of the nuclear family model. Nuclear families seemed to work okay as long as White men worked “family wage jobs” and could afford to support a wife and a passel of kids. When those jobs disappeared and White women had to work outside of the home, (like Black women have always had to do) the weakness of the nuclear family model was revealed.
White families also find themselves grappling with issues like divorce, elder abuse, child neglect, loneliness and suicide. What makes the difference for White families are more resources (assets such as real estate and businesses) plus not having to swim against the currents of systemic inequality on a daily basis.
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https://www.unz.com/isteve/just-how-black-was-rbgs-one-black-clerk/
..and RBG’s one “black” clerk just happens to be a guy who could practically pass as White, who grew up in privilege with strong jewish connections.
So how much did RBG, this person who did so much to advance “affirmative action”, believe in it for herself? That’s right, not at all.
How often do liberal politicians who want to let in illegal immigrants for political power and talk about how increasing “diversity” is so great ever send their own kids to schools that have even 25%+ NAM representation? That’s right, not at all.
These folks will be happy to get the police defunded for you, while they live in their gated communities with private security. They slaughter your babies and enslave your communities in a cycle of poverty and you are so thrilled for them (voting 95%+ for them) because they tell you what you want to hear..
Afrofem said, “Most societies in the world operate through multigenerational extended family forms. That includes most Black people throughout the Americas and on the Continent of Africa. The majority of Black families include a collection of blood kin and friends accepted as family. That form of family has existed among Black people for generations.”
Just 2 points on this:
First, if BLM leadership cared about these traditions so much, they wouldn’t talk about “disrupting” the nuclear family, but rather supplementing it through community. They wouldn’t wholeheartedly support LGBTQ+ stuff, which was not traditionally accepted in most black communities, or indeed in almost any societies in the world.
Second, again, the evidence is very clear, especially in the US black community. Nuclear families (with support from grandparents, sure) lead to the best results for children. There are plenty of traditional cultures around the world that practice all kinds of pagan stuff, many still have child brides and polygamy and some even slavery and cannibalism. That doesn’t mean you need to celebrate it or try to copy it.
If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore, your guilt remains.
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@ biff
I think this is meant to be read inclusively, not exclusively. It does not say “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” but “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement“. You keep leaving off that word – requirement. They are not out to destroy the nuclear family but rather accept other forms as well, like the extended family – which, as Afrofem pointed out, is not at all uncommon among Black Americans.
Also, that two of the four founders were Marxist hardly makes BLM Marxist, especially when the rank and file are hardly Marxist at all. If you want to play that Mickey Mouse game, then BLM is more rightly called Christian. You are repeating right-wing propaganda which seeks to demonize even the most peaceful protest against police brutality. Just ask Colin Kaepernick.
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Emily Bazelon set the record straight about that quote back in 2012. Ginsburg was using “we” to indicate society in general. The context was her personal concern (back in the 1970s) that the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v Wade was based on worries about overpopulation rather than on women’s rights.
Biff left out the crucial last sentence here:
“The ruling surprised me. Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.“*
What Ginsburg was actually saying is that back when the Roe decision was handed down, she was worried it was going to be used by the government to promote abortion among poor women who use Medicaid.
Bazelon explains:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/10/ruth-bader-ginsburg-clears-up-her-views-on-abortion-population-control-and-roe-v-wade.html
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Fake profile on Twitter:
“I joined the BLM protests…. I didn’t realize I became a Marxist. It happened without me even knowing it.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1299125024104873984
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/viral-pro-trump-tweets-came-fake-african-american-spam-accounts-n1238553
Biff, is this your handiwork?? 😂😂😂😂
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Yes, Solitaire, you’ve caught me again with the fake twitter accounts. It’s too bad that Republicans totally control Twitter and the other major tech platforms. They’ll definitely use that control to influence the election unfortunately, which of course Dems would never ever do. So of course the media only reports on Republican interference.
Re: the RGB quote, of course she won’t come out and admit she wants to kill off black people. No one is accusing her of being stupid. But the words “populations that we don’t want to have too many of” is a slip of the tongue that reveals her thoughts process. She didn’t have to use the word “we”.
And how do you explain away her basically refusing to work with blacks personally for 27+ years on the Supreme Court after getting drilled about her hiring 0 black clerks during her 13 years previously in confirmation hearings and indicating that would change when she got to the Supreme Court?
abagond, to imply that at least 2 of 4 founders of a political action group being trained Marxist would have no more effect on the direction of that organization than if such people came from a Christian background (broadly defined, as Marxism is explicitly anti-religion) is not intellectual honest coming from you.
Also, in a context where more than three quarters of black children grow up without their biological father in their household for significant periods of time, it’s ridiculous to want to fight against a so-called “nuclear family structure requirement”.
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“There are plenty of traditional cultures around the world that practice all kinds of pagan stuff, many still have child brides and polygamy and some even slavery and cannibalism. That doesn’t mean you need to celebrate it or try to copy it.”
Hmm. biff’s usual nonsensical strawmen and derailment. Try harder to make sense next time.
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@ Abagond
Why am I not surprised biff did not include the critical word “requirement.” in that quote.
Typical.
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@ Biff
“They slaughter your babies and enslave your communities in a cycle of poverty and you are so thrilled for them (voting 95%+ for them) because they tell you what you want to hear..”
You recently stated on another thread that you believe God purposely designed black people to be more prone to criminal activity (i.e., to sin).
Given that belief, if you and your compatriots gain control of this country, what future do you plan for African Americans?
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Solitaire, why ask “what ifs”? Believe it or not, the Republicans controlled all three branches of government in 2016. You got repeated record lows for black unemployment and the media yelling “ORANGE MAN BAD!” at the top of their lungs for the last 4 years so no one would pay attention to that.
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@ Biff
“Believe it or not, the Republicans controlled all three branches of government in 2016.”
I doubt that the majority of Republicans share your beliefs about God’s choices during the creation of black people.
“why ask ‘what ifs’?”
Because I want to know what you yourself would have in mind for African Americans, in light of your religious beliefs.
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@Afrofem
Well said. The nuclear family is a manifestation of the atomization characteristic of Western civilization and helps to buttress the capitalist economic system.
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