One of the most striking markers of our current partisan divide — actually, chasm — is that liberals regard the contents of Judge Roberts’ Reagan era memos as a Gotcha! expos
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One of the most striking markers of our current partisan divide — actually, chasm — is that liberals regard the contents of Judge Roberts’ Reagan era memos as a Gotcha! expos
Why the WaPo is struggling: One in a series.
John Rosenberg at Discriminations has an exquisite takedown of a frontpage piece in the WaPo today on John Roberts that almost defies every sense of journalistic common sense. But hey, it’s the Post. .
Their bill of particulars shows a common pattern, a wish to preserve those policies which use unreason to magnify racial conflicts in society. Busing involves blaming Caucasian children for educational and other failures of minorities. Racial gerrymandering assumes that the majority will conspire to disfranchise minorities, who can only be really represented by their own. Quotas in general presuppose that disadvantaged minorities cannot get a fair evaluation from the majority, except incidentally. Someone who challenges these assumptions is considered a threat to the aggrandizement of official discretion in the racial state.
“The Post assumes, without argument, that all these positions are bad, and that the task before Congress now is ”
You’re projecting. The post assumes they’re part of reaganism. You make the leap to the fact that this is bad.
“It’s true. Reagan, Rehnquist, and Bush 41 DID oppose the Civil Rights Act in 1964.”
Posted by John Rosenberg December 27, 2004 11:17 PM
It’s also interesting to note that Reagan opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
>>>”Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights. He opposed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Reagan said in 1980 that the Voting Rights Act had been
Cobra – I believe Reagan and Bush I were wrong to oppose the 1964 CRA, and I would have no objection to asking Roberts what he thinks of that Act. I also would have no problem with his replying this opinion of particular pieces of legislation is not relevant to what kind of judge he would be, since it is not a judge’s role to pass on the wisdom or advisability of legislation. I’d like to know, for example, whether he thinks the Commerce Clause or the 14th Amend. a better hook for civil rights legislation, and maybe somebody will ask him that.
actus – perhaps you read the Post story as revealing his past positions on civil rights to make him look good? Or just neutral, objective fact-presenting? If so, I have a bridge….
“actus – perhaps you read the Post story as revealing his past positions on civil rights to make him look good? Or just neutral, objective fact-presenting? If so, I have a bridge.”
I think they portray his opinions. You think they’re good. Others think they’re bad.
Actus,
How many of those in the Feminist Majority actually ever sent their children to public schools, let alone had their children bussed. It is easy for the likes of John Kerry to support bussing while their own children attend elite, private schools.
I also wonder if anyone ever asked the left if racial gerrymandering was a good thing?
“How many of those in the Feminist Majority actually ever sent their children to public schools, let alone had their children bussed.”
Who’s the “feminist majority”?
Superdestroyer writes,
>>>I also wonder if anyone ever asked the left if racial gerrymandering was a good thing?”
Maybe you should ask Republican Tom Delay about racial gerrymandering. Secondly, there would be no need for bussing if there wasn’t defacto segregation in American housing. It’s about time that anti-affirmative action types (besides Stephen, who touts it regularly) admits its prevalance in America.
–Cobra
Actus,
How typical a dodge of the question. Once again, how many Democrat members of the House, the Senate, Clinton’s cabinet send/sent their children to public school and how many ever had a relative bussed into a majority black neighbhorhood? My guess is very few if any. Is is really easy for people like Barak Obama to support bussing while his own kids are in private school.
Cobra,
If the left wants to campaign on the issue that people should not be free to choose where they live and that the government should be able to assign you to a neighborhood, then they should feel free to do so. Of course, they will win few elections outside of the all black districts created to elect people like Shirley Jackson Lee.
“How typical a dodge of the question. Once again, how many Democrat members of the House, the Senate, Clinton’s cabinet send/sent their children to public school and how many ever had a relative bussed into a majority black neighbhorhood?”
I remember carter sent his daughters to public school. But overall I don’t know.
Superdestroyer, Abigail Thernstrom (US Commission on Civil Rights Commissioner) routinely holds the “left” (and the right for acquiescing) to the fire for racial gerrymandering. No one really reports on it though.