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Sep 21, 2020 15:12:54   #
Rose42
 
Iliamna1 wrote:
You got that very wrong I remember as a young teenager that after my mother divorced her abusive and lazy first husband, she had a lot of difficulty getting insurance on her car due to HIS tickets and accident and needed his signature to get the insurance. He had disappeared after the divorce somewhere overseas and she was just SOL until an attorney got involved. Also, after she remarried and we had moved to Texas, she was working as a professor of nursing. She had gone to cash a check and the young man at the counter asked what her husband's profession was. She replied "I'm a college professor" and the young man kept insisting she tell what her husband did. He finally got a supervisor who O.K.'d her check based on HER profession. She was a Republican conservative, but she was clearly discriminated against based on her sex, Thank Heavens those days are over.
You got that very wrong I remember as a young tee... (show quote)


Yes its good those days are gone.

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Sep 21, 2020 15:12:55   #
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tNotMyPrez wrote:
Unlike yourself, apparently, RB Ginsburg didn't discriminate - - SHE wanted to achieve equal protection for everyone. This, from the article:

In 1973, Ginsburg took on another Supreme Court case. Sharron Frontiero was an Air Force officer whose husband, Joseph, had been denied the housing and medical benefits that female spouses of male Air Force officers received automatically...

It was in Frontiero that Ginsburg gave her first oral argument before the Supreme Court. “I knew that I was speaking to men who didn’t think there was any such thing as g****r-based discrimination and my job was to tell them it really exists,” she has said. To make the point to the nine men who were sitting on the bench, she quoted the nineteenth-century women’s-rights advocate Sarah Grimkè: “I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” She apparently succeeded...

Ginsburg’s team won the case. Yet they did not convince a majority of the justices that sex discrimination should be treated exactly like racial discrimination...

While at the ACLU, Ginsburg played a role in 34 Supreme Court cases, and won five of the six cases she argued before the court — Frontiero, Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld, Califano v. Goldfarb, Duren v. Missouri, and Edwards v. Healy. Many of her cases involved sex discrimination against men, which she felt might rouse more sympathy among the male justices, and show that discrimination hurts everyone.

Ginsburg sometimes said that one of her favorite cases involved a man whose wife died in childbirth, leaving him alone to care for their newborn son. Stephen Wiesenfeld’s wife had been the primary breadwinner, and upon her death, he went to the local Social Security office to inquire about survivors’ benefits for a parent and learned that he didn’t qualify because he was a man. Ginsburg convinced the Supreme Court that the section of the Social Security Act that denied fathers benefits because of their sex was unconstitutional. She won a unanimous decision.
Unlike yourself, apparently, RB Ginsburg didn't di... (show quote)
I'm not discriminating, I'm all for equal protection for everyone - the DoI and our Constitution are pretty clear on that.

I'm just pointing out that The Left’s War On White Men Rages On

The Collegiate War Against Men

White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it

When Did White Men Become The Bad Guys in America?

The Demonizing of White Men

Don Lemon, a CNN anchorman, said, “We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.”

Steven Clifford, former King Broadcasting CEO, said, “I will be leading a great movement to prohibit straight white males, who I believe supported Donald Trump by about 85 percent, from exercising the franchise (to v**e), and I think that will save our democracy.”

Teen Vogue, a magazine targeting teenage girls, wrote, “Not only is white male terrorism as dangerous as Islamic extremism, but our collective safety rests in rooting out the source of their radicalization.”

Economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, wrote a column titled “The Angry White Male Caucus,” in which he explained, “Trumpism is all about the fear of losing traditional privilege.”

There have been similar despicable statements made by academics.

James Livingston, a Rutgers history professor: “OK, officially, I now h**e white people. … I hereby resign from my race. F— these people.”


Stacey Patton, a Morgan State University professor: “There is nothing more dangerous in the United States than a white man who has expected to succeed and finds himself falling behind.”

Stony Brook University sociology professor Michael Kimmel explained, “White men’s anger comes from the potent fusion of two sentiments: entitlement and a sense of victimization.”

Then there’s the political arena.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “There’s no question that in Georgia and in Florida r****m has reared its ugly head. And you have candidates who ran against Andrew Gillum and ran against Stacey Abrams who were r****t. … And that is an outrage.”

Michael Avenatti, criticizing the GOP senators during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings: “These old white men still don’t understand that assault victims and women deserve respect and to be heard.”

“What troubles me is … they’re all white men,” commented former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm regarding GOP senators questioning Christine Blasey Ford at the Kavanaugh hearings.

William Falk, editor-in-chief of The Week, said, “There’s something odd about the overwhelming white maleness of Washington’s current leadership.”

Not to be outdone, entertainers have hopped on the demonizing-white-men bandwagon.

Joy Behar, talking on ABC’s “The View” about senators supporting Kavanaugh, said: “These white men—old, by the way—are not protecting women. They’re protecting a man who is probably guilty.”

Actress Gabourey Sidibe, also on “The View,” said: “Older white men are a problem, y’all, for everyone. We’re all at risk.”

Moira Donegan wrote an article for The Guardian titled “Half of White Women Continue to V**e Republican. What’s Wrong With Them?”

Renee Graham wrote a column in The Boston Globe that counseled, “Memo to black men: Stop v****g Republican.”

Comedian Chelsea Handler tweeted, “Just a friendly reminder for the weekend: No white after Labor Day, and no old, white r****t men after the midterms. Get out and v**e.”

That is just a partial list of statements that would be viewed and condemned as r****t simply by replacing “white men” with “black men,” “Mexican men,” or “Asian men.” You can bet the rent money that university presidents and media executives would sanction any of their employees for making similar broad, sweeping statements about nonwhite men.

Suppose a white anchorman said, “Black people are the greatest murder threat in this country.” I guarantee you that he’d be shown the door.

There are only two ways to explain the silence by people who should know better. Either they agree with the sentiments expressed or they are out-and-out cowards.

Decent American people ought to soundly reject and condemn this brazen attack on white men. I think that the attack is on masculinity itself and that white men are a convenient scapegoat—for now.

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Sep 21, 2020 15:25:34   #
Iliamna1
 
tNotMyPrez wrote:
Thank you for sharing your mother's story. If the right-wing has their way, those days we'll be back on our doorstep. The even-jellicles believe in men-in-charge.


I am an evangelical Christian. I believe in God-ordained authority and appropriate submission to appropriate authority, without which we can only get chaos, such as the A****a r**ts and destruction. Paul also wrote in several places that in Christ, men and women are equals. There needs to be leadership in the marriage so all parties pull in the same direction. I have never felt discriminated against by my Christian brothers, but I sure as hell feel discriminated against by liberals, who can't grasp the concept that in Christ I am free,
Submission to God-ordained authority, be it to a husband, the government or church leadership, is a matter of volition. God states that r*******n is the same as witchcraft, It puts oneself on a throne instead of the Lord.
So go ahead and mock me. I know where I'm going and why.

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Sep 21, 2020 15:36:28   #
Rose42
 
Iliamna1 wrote:
I am an evangelical Christian. I believe in God-ordained authority and appropriate submission to appropriate authority, without which we can only get chaos, such as the A****a r**ts and destruction. Paul also wrote in several places that in Christ, men and women are equals. There needs to be leadership in the marriage so all parties pull in the same direction. I have never felt discriminated against by my Christian brothers, but I sure as hell feel discriminated against by liberals, who can't grasp the concept that in Christ I am free,
Submission to God-ordained authority, be it to a husband, the government or church leadership, is a matter of volition. God states that r*******n is the same as witchcraft, It puts oneself on a throne instead of the Lord.
So go ahead and mock me. I know where I'm going and why.
I am an evangelical Christian. I believe in God-or... (show quote)


Well said.

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