More evidence of Alito evil
Because we desperately needed more evidence of his evil, I share with you the news that Samuel Alito helped write a 1980s Department Of Justice opinion that employers could legally fire people living with AIDS. I don't care that it was early in the epidemic, because that doesn't excuse it.
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The prejudice wasn't even limited to people who actually had HIV or AIDS. I remember some relatives of mine spreading the news that a guy who worked at a Hardee's in their town was gay, and that people shouldn't eat there. The guy was perfectly healthy, as far as I know. It made me sad then, and it makes me disgusted now.
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I'm operating from a position of zero information about Mr. Alito, but I would offer the following:
- the word "evil" gets thrown around so casually nowadays that true evil is going to fly right under our collective radar if and when it arrives. it is now nearly meaningless. and yes, the pres is probably the worst offender in this regard.
- would the blogging masses not apply this word to any supreme court nominee offered up by the pres ( ... )
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You want more information on Alito? 'Cause I got it, and this is no "knee-jerk character assassination" -- I actually do know something about him.
Most importantly for me, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Alito was the only one who dissented in a ruling that, had it gone Alito's way, would've required married women to inform their husband of their plan to get an abortion. In my view (and in the view of many other women), this is tantamount to saying a woman is the property of her husband. While there was a stipulation that women who feared physical abuse didn't have to tell their husbands, those women then would be forced to report their husbands as abusers, and abusive men who found out about their being reported could get even more violent. What's more, there was no reprieve for women who feared ( ... )
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Well, now we're talkin. :-)
I realize that fact-checking and homework can't accompany every single opinion one cares to post, but I think you'd agree that the web has become a refuge for the intellectually lazy. You've demonstrated (here and elsewhere) that you don't fall into this category and are therefore in the minority. No defense of your position on this issue or your politics in general are necessary.
You're right--Miers wasn't tagged as evil, she was tagged as a lapdog and a buffoon, which is worse. "Evil" would imply that she was capable of independent thought and the ability to formulate an agenda. Maybe it was deserved, maybe it wasn't. The conspiracy theorist in me happens to think that she was set up as a decoy, the logic being that Congress would never knock down two in a row ( ... )
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I was no fan of Miers, but now I actually kind of miss her. :( She got mistreated, and I think you're right about her being used. In hindsight, I think she might have been less right-wing than she appeared, but her closeness to Bush and her lack of experience worried me a lot.
"Reverse discrimination" and especially "reverse racism" really irritate me ( ... )
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honestly, though, did anyone know what the hell they were talking about back then?
from TFA: In a 1986 Post article, Alito was quoted as saying, "We certainly did not want to encourage irrational discrimination, but we had to interpret the law as it stands ... and it does not regulate what a private employer can do if he has a fear of a contagious disease."
the medical community as a whole was still figuring this shit out, so who was to say that just working in a cube next to someone wasn't enough for you to catch it back then? its not like he was saying "aids is evil, fire people with aids," but rather, since not enough was known about it, you could be fired for it: The opinion said the firing would be legal because discrimination based on "insufficient medical knowledge" was not banned by ( ... )
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I'm just going to have to disagree with you.
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