And I feel a need to wash my hands after typing just a sample of the scary shit that man has done and said over the years. * rejecting the findings of science while believing that the existence of atheists is proof of a living, literal devil…. * cavalierly proclaiming that torture wasn’t “punishment” and therefore couldn’t be considered “cruel and unusual ” ![]() If you don’t believe that, you don’t believe in democracy”) and equating the protection of minority interests with protecting pederasts and child abusers * dismissing the liberties and protections provided in the Bill of Rights (“The majority wins. Wade, as “irrational” and “not to be taken seriously ” * referring to a female SCOTUS justice (Sandra O’Connor), when she refused to join him in trying to overturn Roe v. * saying the 14 th amendment’s equal protection clause didn’t apply to females and thus there is no protection against discrimination for women in the US Constitution, and advising a female law student to skip taking “ frill classes” like “law and women ” * boasting that his refusal to recuse himself from a case about then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force - after he’d just returned on a duck-hunting trip with Cheney - was the “proudest thing” he’d done on the SCOTUS * arguing that African-Americans would be better off in slower schools * dissing the establishment clause to an audience of schoolchildren and telling another group of children that that humanity was only in its 5,000th year of existence * defending sentencing “retarded” people to death via the everybody’s doing it argument: i.e., if mentally-impaired people continue to receive death sentences from juries then that must be socially acceptable criminalize gay “behavior” – because some (straight) people don’t like them * comparing the quest for LGBT human rights to flagpole sitting and saying it would be okay to jail gay people – i.e. * equating homosexuality with “reprehensible” conduct including incest and murder * referring to voting rights as “racial entitlements ” Ī sampling of the many Scali-ism which reveal his bigoted, science-hostile, religiously-warped mindset, include him Unlike your drunk uncle, Scalia got to hide his prejudices, fear and loathing behind the skirts of a judge using an originalist interpretation of the US Constitution. He held a powerful position and thus had a loud and far-reaching megaphone, through which he advocated ideologies that do real harm to real people. The thing is, Scalia wasn’t just your blowhard bigot uncle pontificating at the neighborhood watering hole. Sure, I’ll miss Scalia’s batshit crazy rantings bizarre flights of phraseology and imagery (“ jiggery-pokery” and “ Platonic golf,” in particular) but I’ll not miss his retrograde, religion-soiled worldview and blatant hostility to the advancement of human rights.Īs the Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor put it in her Freethought Now blog post, Why Scalia Was a Fugitive From Justice, Scalia was a “judicial version of a bible literalist…who dressed up the old ‘states’ rights’ arguments in the bizarre new clothing he termed ‘originalist’ interpretations of the Constitution.” And yep, on a certain level I do equate them: Scalia was a judicial tyrant, hostile to those cherished American ideals of liberty, justice and equality for all. Over the years I’ve said good riddance upon hearing the news of certain people’s deaths, for example, the architects of apartheid and Osama Bin Ladin, among other political and social tyrants. Sound harsh? It’s “nothing personal,” as they say. Pity it wasn’t a car crash and he didn’t take one or two of his buddies with him. Should I feel guilty for rejoicing upon hearing the news of someone’s death? While I’m not exactly dancing on his grave, full disclosure: my first reaction upon hearing that SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia had died: ![]() Justice Scalia Dead Following 30-Year Battle With Social Progress The utensils are seemingly satisfied with – dare I guess, even proud of ? – their singular, humble-yet-vital raison d’etre.īut damn, I wish I’d written this headline: Two forks now reside upstairs by the cat food cans. I’M SO HAPPY WITH MY DOLLAR TREE PURCHASE!Īfter years of using our nondescript, Bed Bath & Beyond everyday flatware precious family heirloom silverware for scooping out cat food, I recently said to moiself, “Self,” I said, “the next time you pass a Dollar Tree store, why not pop inside and pick up a couple of forks?” Aka, I’m Supposed To Post This Kind Of Mindless Minutiae On Facebook…
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