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Some Like It Simple
It's White Guy!
By Rick Horowitz
"I will not vote for, and no senator should vote for, an individual
nominated by any president who believes it is acceptable for a judge
to allow their personal background, gender, prejudices or sympathies
to sway their decision in favor of or against parties before the court."
Sen.
Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), at the Sonia Sotomayor hearings
I am truth.
I am certainty.
I am facts
-- facts as they are, not as some might wish them to be.
I am objectivity
personified.
I am White
Guy.
When I see things,
I see them clearly, and without distortion of any kind. I see all things,
and hear all things, and I overlook nothing. I assign each thing I see,
each thing I hear, the importance it deserves -- neither more nor less.
My judgment in these matters isn't judgment at all -- it is the simple
recognition of reality. Any judgment that differs from mine, to the
extent it differs from mine, does not reflect reality.
I am White
Guy.
My knowledge
is total, and has no gaps. If there are things I seem not to know or
fully comprehend, it is because these things are not worth knowing or
comprehending. I have exactly the knowledge one should have, exactly
the comprehension one should have, to make my way in the world. The
rest is extraneous.
I am White
Guy.
"Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever
it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to politics. And politics
has no place in the courtroom."
Sen.
Sessions
The rules and practices that appear to benefit me as White Guy are the
only possible rules and practices. When I benefit from them, it is because
I deserve to, by dint of dedication or hard work or innate talent. When
others press for other rules and practices, it is only because they
expect that somebody will cut them a break. This conclusion is too obvious
to require further explanation.
I am White
Guy.
Because I already know I have no prejudices, it would be a complete
waste of time to consider the possibility that I might. Because I have
no prejudices, I am confident that my judgments are the only possible
judgments. My brain plays no tricks on me. Neither does my heart, or
my gut. My experiences are universal experiences, and the lessons I
take from those experiences are precisely the same lessons that any
reasonable person would take.
I am White
Guy.
"This 'empathy
standard' is another step down the road to a liberal, activist, result-oriented,
relativist world where laws lose their fixed meaning, unelected judges
set policy, Americans are seen as members of separate groups rather than
simply Americans, and where the constitutional limits on government power
are ignored when politicians want to buy out private companies."
Sen.
Sessions
"Empathy" is feeling what others feel. Since reasonable people in any
circumstance feel exactly what I feel, I already know what others feel.
Empathy is superfluous. So is sympathy.
I am White
Guy.
I hate when questions are raised about the way things are done -- especially
when the way things are done is the way things have always been done.
Instead
of going down that dangerous road of complain and criticize, we should
stick to our familiar path, and be thankful that the familiar path has
been so helpful to so many of us for so long
I have
had it up to here with all the sore losers.
I am White
Guy.
Posted 7/14/09. Had
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Rick Horowitz
