I'm Still Alive...Barely

I've been gone for quite some time, I'm not dead, I've just been busy. Rest assured I've been no less annoying and imposing with my political views. Especially about this Sotomayor person. Unlike Harry Reid, I decided to read some or her opinions. It's very boring shit and I'm going to attempt to make it slightly less boring shit.

Ricci v. DeStefano is the case everyone is talking about. This is the case in New Haven, Connecticut where a group of firefighters (17 white, one Hispanic) brought a lawsuit against New Haven because of 'reverse discrimination'. (Side bar: What the fuck does reverse discrimination mean anyhow? It's not reverse anything, it's just discrimination. I understand that the majority is the one claiming to be discriminated against, but even though the majority of rapists are men, a female who commits rape isn't called a 'reverse rapist'. That term fucking infuriates me). Anyhow, a group of firefighters took a test to see if they qualified for a promotion. The city claims to use something called 'The Rule of Three' which means that the person chosen for the position will be picked from the top three scorers on the test. Crazy right? The people who did best get the job. That is, of course, unless the people who do best on the test are white. I won't bore you with the numbers, but there were seven openings for captains positions and only one or two Hispanics and no blacks scored high enough to be considered, and out of eight openings for lieutenant, no blacks or Hispanics scored well enough to be considered. Here's where it gets weird, because any sane person would think, 'Oh, I guess there won't be any black captains or lieutenants, and there might be one or two Hispanic captains. Guess they'll try harder for the next exam'. Not so much. The city of New Haven decided to chuck the test results and promote no one because the blacks and Hispanics didn't do as well as the whites. The firefighters who sued would have all been eligible for a promotion had the test results not been thrown out. They lost. They appealed to Sotomayor's court, they lost again. They appealed again to the Supreme Court, where the case is now being heard.

What lesson does that teach? If you're a minority and you don't do as well as a white person, we'll penalize the white person who worked harder than you so you don't get your feelings hurt? How the fuck can a standardized test, created by an independent agency to test firefighters for promotions, be biased? Is it possible that the 68 white people who took the test just did better than the 50 minorities that took the test? Why in the fuck is that so hard to believe? That can never be the case though right? Even if it's true, the minorities might get their feelings hurt and just give up. They wouldn't take that failure and what they've learned from it and apply it to future tests they may take, they'll just quit all together. Apparently, the only time minorities don't do well on tests is when they're being discriminated against. Isn't that what these fucking racists are saying? And this isn't even something that the minorities who did poorly on the test brought about, the city of New Haven threw the scores out because they were afraid someone might think their test was racist. In doing so, they're just perpetuating perceived racism that isn't even there. If white officials keep patting minorities on the head and saying, 'There, there, you did really well! Well, you would have if that evil test wasn't so racist! Don't fret, we'll just give you a different test and maybe you'll do better on that one'. If, just one fucking time, someone in charge would say to those crying racism, 'Study harder next time mother fucker, then you might get a promotion', we'd get somewhere with race relations. Not every fucking failure in your life is because people are out to get you, sometimes it might be, and other times it's because there are people out there who are better, harder working, smarter or more diligent than you are. I suspect a lot of minorities know this, but they also know that if they fuck up and don't do well, the guilty white liberals will blame it on racism and they'll get whatever they want anyhow.

This case worries me because our next Supreme Court justice agrees with the decision here. It's fucking racism. Not to mention her comments about how she makes better decisions because she's a Hispanic woman and not a white man. No Republicans are causing a fuss because they're all castrated faggots and there is really no hope in sight.

I'm depressed. Anyone want to start a third party with me?