How much attention are we supposed to pay random people? Some actor I've never heard of sent that tweet. The right-wing nutpicks constantly and then pretends it justifies the insane behavior from the most powerful guy in the world.

Let's be fair and compare like with like.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1309916696296198146

That's the most prominent example. He was responding to a supposed picture of Barrett with her 2 black children, as evidence that Barrett could not be racist. The picture actually wasn't of Barrett. It's not actually an attack on her children.

Predictably the right-wing overreacted. I don't like the tweet, but it's within the bounds of what you would expect from someone who wrote "How to Be an Antiracist".

You're... actually right. My cherrypicking tendencies might have gotten a little bit out of hand in recent days.

the democrat biden supporter who i posted that attacked Barrett’s adopted children:

“According to his LinkedIn page, Houle is a former campaign manager to several top Democrats like former Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) and current Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT). He also was Hodes’ chief of staff in Congress. On his website, Houle describes himself as an effective Democrat operative who has taken out sitting Republicans”

so not some major player but then again any bad behavior against children or the nominee by (D)s and biden supporters is fine by you because “Trump bad”. you will write them off as “minor players” even if it’s members of the senate or house.

long as you get your silver right. and you call yourself and the democrats serious lmfao, pathetic..

This post was edited by excellence on Sep 27 2020 09:11am

Here's the thing though.

When you perceive something as being "from the left" you might cherry pick, and sometimes you'll admit it's a genuine mistake.

But you'll basically never do it to the right under any circumstance.

I think you'd be better served trying to apply a uniform and strict skepticism, and that doesn't apply just to your political views, since people IRL I see who do this often do it to multiple subjects.

I'm not telling you to not apply skepticism to the left, I'm asking you to elevate the skepticism you use on the right.

When somebody says "critical race theory is bullshit", instead of thinking CRT is lefty garbage, do some googling on what CRT is from the perspective of people who advocate it (without necessarily accepting it) and then apply skepticism and look at the "why CRT is bullshit" crowd and see if they are even using criticisms that apply. (usually they haven't even googled the definition when the new lefty issue of the week comes up)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/democrats-new-talking-point-barret-will-dismantle-obamacare/

dumb source but the point remains: according to the (D)s Amy Coney Barrett will have the unilateral power to dismantle Obamacare/Roe v Wade/provisions for pre-existing conditions/who knows what else

which if true (lol no) it begs the question why did everyone on the left leave it so late with the Supreme Court seat? plenty of time that Obama was in charge of nominees and the usually-stupid Republicans actually did the correct thing and did a solid and had some senators help confirm his nominees when they were the minority in the senate

This post was edited by excellence on Sep 27 2020 01:49pm

I don't think it's people attacking her children, so much as it is people are bringing up her adoption of children from Haiti as a potential example of the very real historical issue of international adoption. While the issue is legit, the timing of caring about her specific adoption coincidentally falling the aftermath of her nomination is a bit cringe.

its just another example of lefties not caring about children, in particular children of color. privileged lefties prefer for children to suffer in poverty rather than be adopted by a family who they (the privileged lefties) disagree with politically. and thor has admitted he will end his lineage with himself so he isn’t qualified to talk about this subject.

Unfortunately America’s adoption system is so filled with red-tape and foolish bureaucratic procedures that a lot of families seeking to adopt children end up adopting internationally, and it’s American children who suffer.

e: the movie “instant family” actually does a good job of touching on this issue

This post was edited by excellence on Sep 27 2020 07:43pm

Bringing up her adoptions as an example of a real historical issue is only legitimate if there actually is anything fishy with her specific case, with the specific adoptions made by her family.

It's not just the timing which is cringe, those making these accusations havent been able to prove that there's ANY substance behind their attacks. They're randomly throwing shit to the wall, hoping that something sticks. It's the same tactic they already employed with Kavanaugh, just that there was at least some remote grain of truth with Kavanaugh (he really liked to party and probably treated some women suboptimally during his younger days).

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 27 2020 07:46pm

To IceMage's point, I don't think this topic really has major support or interest by people on the left. That said, the only people I've seen post about it so far haven't said that definitively there's something at-issue here with her specific adoption, but that they want to know the details due to the potential. Is, either way, very cringe.