Ep. 6.17.20: Hooray for Supreme Court Road Kill! The Supreme Court fails to get in the way of LGBTQ rights.

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We discuss a great way to celebrate Pride Month, as the US Supreme Court issues a shocking and dramatic decision that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender. Don't get your hopes up about the Supreme Court, however. There is no reason to expect it will now protect civil rights or develop integrity; it's more like road kill for an unstoppable and too-long-denied force for social progress.  

Dave takes that same sentiment to his discussions of the week in social justice protests. We start with a reminder that Governor Cuomo of NY has only looked so great these past weeks because he is being compared to trump, a "leader" without brains or empathy still relying on calls to racists such as scheduling his white supremacist rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa. Cuomo telling protesters to go home because they had already won was like a hockey team declaring victory and going home after a first period goal. With added offensiveness.

The battle for racial justice, 400 years in the making, will not be won in a day, nor will it be won by securing cosmetic changes. (Nor will it be won at all if we get distracted by red herrings such as that seeking to make looting the real story here.) Keep marching to November...and beyond.

And then there's COVID. Trump moves the Republican convention to Florida, a state willing to sacrifice its citizens (and those of all the other states) for a few bucks. And schedules his rally in Tulsa, without taking precautions other than to force the morons to sign liability waivers! (But don't worry, the whole COVID thing is a George Soros plot!) Anybody want to guess a couple of states setting new records for new COVID cases?

The lockdown backlash will cost many thousands of US lives, all so Americans don't lose the freedom to dine in a packed restaurant. We consider the irony that people are siding with republicans on re-opening, due to concerns about small businesses, when it is republicans that are stealing the damage relief funds Democrats have allocated to small businesses! 

 

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