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puncha yo bunsSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:39pm
Really?!? You mean the man who said that black students should attend less difficult schools with educational tracks more suited to their abilities treated his black students unfairly??

Color me bigoted.
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  puncha yo bunspuncha yo buns
  2/29/16 12:42pm
  “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less — a slower-track school where they do well,” Scalia said,
  
  “They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re being pushed ahead in classes that are too fast for them,” Scalia said. “I’m just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer. Maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe some — you know, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks, admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less.”
  
  Thanks for all your enlightened words, Scalia.
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  eliezabethpuncha yo buns
  2/29/16 12:46pm
  It not HIS fault if he assumes that every black student he had was there because of affirmative action and is therefore unqualified. It’s the fault of the students!
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benjaminalloverSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:40pm
Justice Antonin Scalia... worked to make society less just for black Americans, railing against affirmative action and seeking to undermine the Voting Rights Act. His admirers would attribute this not to rank bigotry, but to his textualist legal philosophy.

The thing about plausible deniability is that it ought to be plausible. Why are we so incredulous when it comes to racism? This man looked and quacked like a duck, and yet the default thinking is this history of racism is an arbitrary coincidence rising from textualism?
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  Poodletimebenjaminallover
  2/29/16 1:01pm
  This is why it is so important for people to make a stink at the University level when racist or misogynistic shitheads, or even rapists are uncovered early in their careers. We think that we don’t know what to do, or that it won’t make a difference, or imagine that there will be some horrible backlash. But what to do is simple — report the bad behavior to the relevant authorities, and do it in writing, and keep a copy. If no one at your institution does anything, look for correlative evidence, and report that on paper, too.
  
  This is not to retrospectively critique anyone from the BALSA, or anyone who might have experienced injustice in the distant past: it sounds like the Black students did everything they could at the time. But imagine, for example, what might have happened if some of the white students worked in and helped Johnson, especially if they had the info. about Scalia’s actions at UVA. The guy’s career could have been seriously derailed. How much easier would it have been to nail this turd if it had been done before his first judgeship?
  
  Everyone, going forward, please report this stuff in writing, and keep a copy. If you get blown off, look around for some corroborative evidence, whether it’s a thug like Scalia or a date rapist. You never know if yours will be the story that nails these bastards!
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  benjaminalloverPoodletime
  2/29/16 1:11pm
  Very well said. It’s easy to speak with the benefit of hindsight, but such actions may have seemed futile or downright self-sabotaging at the time.
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reasonmethisSam Biddle
2/29/16 1:38pm
I got my grade lowered in my Con Law course because I argued with my Latino professor about respective races being over/underrepresented at Ivy League institutions. Argument basically boiled down to him saying every school should be based off national racial quotas and I made the argument that the people you would disproportionately hurt are Asian-Americans who make up 4% of the population yet 20% of Ivy league students. Went and talked to him after the exam and he said I got an A- on the final but that my participation had been sometimes “unhelpful” so he lowered my grade to a B.

I know this isn’t an F and it was not done, hopefully, based off race but my point is that having your grade lowered based off your ideology happens and goes both ways. I could definitely see Scalia lowering someone’s grade based off their liberal leaning just as I could see Obama lowering someone’s grade based off their conservative leanings.
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  Tiff216Greasonmethis
  2/29/16 2:34pm
  Please don’t put Obama in the same camp as Scalia. It does not even make sense based on his temperament.
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  UnschtuppableForcereasonmethis
  2/29/16 2:58pm
  Obama was an easy A, but then most “elite” law school professors are.
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Wayward ApologySam Biddle
2/29/16 12:44pm
I’ve said it before and despite several people expressing outrage at my opinion I’m still glad he is dead, the world is better without his rotten soul.

Nope, don’t feel bad, I would say the same thing to his wife and his children, rot in hell you piece of shit.
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  stpauligrlWayward Apology
  2/29/16 1:39pm
  I’m serious when I say that I can’t imagine anyone feeling differently. We’re supposed to feel “bad” and refrain from expressing our disdain for the man because...why? Fuck that guy.
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  opiumsmabytchWayward Apology
  2/29/16 2:19pm
  There is a special place in hell for those in power who intentionally use said power to make lives miserable for others.
  
  I think it resembles the U-bend in a toilet drain pipe.
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LindaSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:38pm
Good riddance. I heard a law professor on NPR last week suggest we change the law re SCOTUS to term limits. I’ve always wondered why judges get life time appointments. He also mentioned that a lot of times in the old days, justices would go to a member of the court who’d gotten a little long in the tooth and crazy with their opinions and suggest they step down.
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  ReverandRichardWayneGaryWayneLinda
  2/29/16 12:45pm
  Especially since we are now playing the game of who is the plausibly youngest jurist we could select for the Supreme Court in order to make sure the ideological impact is at its greatest.
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  YoSup is in League with the Raccoon MenaceLinda
  2/29/16 12:56pm
  I’ve seen how awful state courts are in states that have judicial elections, so if we are going to have the terms expire, we should also stipulate that they can’t be reappointed. (Not that I think this is likely to happen, since it would take an amendment and is too “technical” of an issue.)
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Low Information BoaterSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:38pm
This is consistent with Scalia's originalist interpretation of the bible. Don't come to class bearing the mark of Cain and expect to pass, people.
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  Sid and FinancyLow Information Boater
  2/29/16 2:24pm
  I don’t know. It doesn’t sound like Scalia, to me, to wait until the third trimester to abort someone’s law-school career.
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  citecheck2Low Information Boater
  2/29/16 2:30pm
  Scalia was a pretty hardcore Catholic, Catholic doctrine plays pretty fast and loose with the Bible and straight up rejects purely literalist interpretations of it. I would be pretty surprised to hear that he believed everything in the Bible was literally true as evangelicals do.
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BrwnskngurlSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:48pm
Scalia’s contempt for black law students was clear and convincing, and further evidenced by his own funeral. While his coffin was hoisted from the hearst, to the stairs, by Supreme Court police officers, the stairs were lined with over 100 of his law clerks hired over his 30 year tenure on the SCOTUS, and there was NOT one African-American among them.
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  BrwnskngurlBrwnskngurl
  2/29/16 1:00pm
  And let me further add that is similar to the debate related to Hollywood’s lack of diversity... Hear me out...
  
  Being a Supreme Court clerk is a BIG F-ING DEAL in the legal profession. It’s a very small group of law school graduates who have had that privilege, and it can mean, and usually does mean, many job offers and a status among the legal elite, that can catapult a career to very high-paying jobs — in and out of the legal profession. The LACK OF DIVERSITY becomes an ECONOMIC ISSUE when black law graduates are systematically excluded (which was likely the case re Scalia), or simply rarely selected (which is likely the case among all of the justices).
  
  This is the same issue for black actors and actresses protesting the Oscars. Let’s not kid ourselves — an Oscar nod can mean MORE WORK, MORE SCRIPTS OFFERED, MORE MONEY TO BE EARNED. It goes much further that just seeing our faces on the screens. It’s an economic issue, folks, too.
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  ARP2Brwnskngurl
  2/29/16 1:30pm
  a/k/a the black tax.
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Hollow_LogSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:40pm
This is like the exact opposite of Dangerous Minds.
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  KLMJR323M3Hollow_Log
  2/29/16 12:51pm
  I walked through the hallway and sat down at my desk. Only to realize that racist fucker gave me an F. I have been reading and studying for so long that even my white-bitch thinks that Scalia is going to put me on. Antonin Scalia ain't never pass a black man that deserved it. Scalia treating whites and blacks the same is something ain't no one ever heard of.
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  LindaKLMJR323M3
  2/29/16 3:02pm
  How’re things under the bridge? When you get to Hell tell Antonin hello.
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fully nude GOP dudeSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:41pm
Italian Americans are the most racist white people (after eastern europeans and Italian Italians) so it’s not a big surprise that an Italian American supreme court justice would also be racist.
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  starkruzrfully nude GOP dude
  2/29/16 12:51pm
  They are matched only by Irish Americans. Source: am half Italian and half Irish, from New York.
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  TheHoopoefully nude GOP dude
  2/29/16 12:52pm
  It just goes to show that the most viciously uppity people are not the upper classes but the people who are trying to join the club. It must have been shocking to Scalia to discover that some of the WASPs he eventually met were notracist creeps. He no doubt regarded them as class traitors. There really aren’t enough representations of this kind of man thought it’s a trope in Britain where people are more class aware. Ronald Merrick in Raj Quartet is the best representation of such a man I can think of. He’s virulently racist because he is trying to signal that his values conform to what he thinks the upper classes values are.
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Vanguard KnightSam Biddle
2/29/16 12:55pm
Being a swarthy, son of poor Sicilian immigrants, [sic] and intent on becoming an all-American white man, he was consumed with putting as much space between himself and Negroes as possible, and becoming an honorary member of the WASP elite.

Duh, this is how America worked in the 19th, and 20th century. It is how it works NOW (See the comments Asian protesters have made in defense of Peter Liang).

Its just most white people are blind to it, or encourage it.
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  mattVanguard Knight
  2/29/16 8:28pm
  you made me google and I read this
  
  “According to the Lawyer Herald, the major issue is not whether Liang was accountable for the killing, but rather why after all the white officers who shot black men could go free and Liang was singled out and not granted any leniency mainly due to past events leading up to the current political turmoil of today”
  
  So were Asian Americans protesting that he Liang should go free because white cops went free or where they protesting that the white cops should also be convicted because Liang was convicted?
  
  To me the former seems asinine!
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