Biden accuses Republicans of ‘verbal abuse’ against Jackson : politics
One of the highest upvoted comments on r/conservative was from some insincere fanatic who had the audacity to declare “MLK would be rolling over in his grave”.
Among a barrage of bold interrogations and indiscriminately prejudiced arguments and conspiracies, this is one of the most popular conservative talking points right now in response to her appointment. So basically, in the future, when any black woman, or it’s safe to say, any black person for that matter, is appointed to some prestigious or coveted position by democrats, it’s simply a matter of identity politics, it’s only because of their race, sex and/or gender. Ironically meaning that conservatives, for the foreseeable future, can reject all liberal candidates or nominees based on their race and/or gender (don’t forget religion either), while rationalizing it with some petty, presumptuous and shallow argument along the lines of “no no no, it’s democrats here who are solely voting based on race, us conservatives, we’re above that!”
While I think it’s also pretty safe to assume that Martin Luther King Jr would not be radically opposed to this decision. And dont forget how one minute MLK is a “commie” and the next he’s being called upon as the basis for an argument. I mean holy fucking shit, c’mon now. Relying on MLKs “the content of their character” for such a transparent display of intrinsic prejudice and partisanship is nothing short of ignorant, particularly when all you know of MLK are a few words that help to disingenuously reinforce your uninformed, misleading and myopic argument as well as your underlying discriminatory attitude.
If anything, he certainly would look at the fact that less than 5% of lawyers are black and just 70 black women have served as a federal judge, and he wouldn’t take these statistics, turn them around and lambaste the appointment, I’m certain he’d count it as a step forward while understanding and noting, despite flimsy right wing narratives, that Jackson is more than qualified for the position. King would undoubtedly rejoice in witnessing the representation of qualified black, female Americans, he’s expressed this very thing before, anything else would be out of character, conservatives are grasping at straws.
That’s the fucking point! That in spite of her qualifications, particularly compared to former supreme court picks, conservatives are still hell bent on blaming it on race. Aren’t you doing the same thing that you’re criticizing democrats of doing? It’s just the other side of the same coin. For fuck’s sake, have some self awareness for once.