{"id":59627,"date":"2016-07-19T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59627"},"modified":"2016-07-17T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T15:20:35","slug":"diversity-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59627","title":{"rendered":"Diversity Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If a White male lawyer represents a landlord in an eviction case where tenant is represented by a Black Lesbian lawyer, who should win? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If you said \u201cThe race, sex and orientation of the lawyers doesn\u2019t matter, what matters is the law and facts of the case,\u201d then why does every law school give bonus points to women and Black applicants?\u00a0 Why does the Bar Association have a Diversity Outreach Program?\u00a0 Why does the Judicial Selection Commission have Affirmative Action requirements to appoint women and minorities as Minnesota judges?\u00a0 Why was it necessary to confirm a Wise Latina to the Supreme Court?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The very things that we insist are irrelevant to justice are the things the administrators of the justice system emphasize above all else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s as if the goal isn\u2019t to enhance justice, it\u2019s to enhance self-esteem.\u00a0 Promoting a few of the downtrodden allows elites to assuage their guilt toward all the downtrodden without actually getting their own hands dirty lifting up any of the downtrodden. \u00a0It\u2019s virtue-signaling, a balm for the conscience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">And yet we wonder why the downtrodden believe the justice system doesn\u2019t produce justice?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Weird, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If a White male lawyer represents a landlord in an eviction case where tenant is represented by a Black Lesbian lawyer, who should win? \u00a0 \u00a0If you said \u201cThe race, sex and orientation of the lawyers doesn\u2019t matter, what matters is the law and facts of the case,\u201d then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59632,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59627\/revisions\/59632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}