Roberts, like many conservatives of his generation, believes enforceable standards to prevent discrimination against Black people in employment, schooling, housing, or the electoral process are an affront to liberty, while the actual discrimination is, if it even exists, the natural order of things

April 09, 2026 - 19:27 UTC

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Kinda the definition of a racist, no?
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Absolutely agree.
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That's very well said, they believe racism is the natural order. That's so depressing and rage inducing
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Musk and Andrews are more explicit about it and Roberts is smart enough to couch it in polite race-neutral and legalistic terms, but they’re all on the same page here bsky.app/profile/polphilpod.bsky.social/post/3mizhkjtbjk2w
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from his early days in the Reagan administration Roberts’ number one motivating belief was that the legal and cultural changes wrought by the Civil Rights era weren’t just an overreaction, but an illegitimate upending of the liberty of society’s natural ruling class
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Enforceable standards to prevent discrimination against *anybody*. It's not about black people, it's about *everybody* who is not like Roberts in some way.
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The mild racists like Roberts are the worst. I have been related to several, and I am unseemly glad that they have passed.
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If somebody has discriminating taste, that's a good thing, isn't it? he asks rhetorically in his majority opinion
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Lots of pretty words when John Roberts is a racist would have sufficed for this 70 year Black woman who remembers when he hit the bench & appointed by another ‘closeted racist’ George W. Bush! Roberts has been waiting for the day someone like DJT! It was the gift he prayed for…IMO!
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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race (present company excluded)”
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Note that his has been the GOP position for 60 yrs.
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At the core of conservatism is the belief that some people (it just so happen to be them) are inherently better than others.
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See Wilhoit’s Law:

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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It doesn’t have to be them though. Loads of people would prefer to “know their place” lower down a hierarchy rather than deal with the perceived disorder of equality
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Every generation of racists believes that that’s what racism is. It’s timeless
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It's like his main belief, his whole life!
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Don't call him a racist though
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The Federalist Society was created to make someone like John Roberts Chief Justice so they could roll back the Civil Rights Era. Impose on conservative white males? it's tyranny. Impose on racial minorities and women? That's just "society."
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Well said…fucked up , but accurate
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Barry Goldwaterism
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Roberts and his allies are determined to entrench white, Christian domination by killing any hope we had for finally achieving a truly free and fair society.
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The Right Wing brain is just wired for racially based tribalism combined with a very low ability to empathize with others as they are inherently selfish to the core.

They fundamentally don’t believe in a cooperative “we”, only a loose “Confederacy” of individual “me”s.
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