Colin Kaepernick should take a knee on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s neck
A call for a different kind of protest
Internets,
Up until the other day, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a sort of Kenneth Bone for white feminist crypto racists on Tumblr.
She still is, really, but now they gotta keep that shit on the low, since she’s in the news for having made some racially insensitive remarks. They can’t have people thinking they’re unconcerned with the plight of the black community.
It’s important that they uphold themselves as paragons of virtue, for marketing purposes. Hence all the virtue signaling.
In an interview the other day with Katie Couric, who’s been reduced to making web videos for Yahoo!, which I’m pretty sure went out of business six weeks ago, Ginsburg said that athletes kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality was “dumb and disrespectful.”
If they wanted to be “stupid,” she said, she didn’t think there should be a law against it, but she disagrees with their point of view. Which I took to mean that she’s officially in favor of police brutality.
This has prompted a reconsideration of the Ginsburg-hero-worship cottage industry that’s metastasized on the Internets in the past few years.
Ginsburg first captured the hearts of confused, ostensibly well-meaning millennials in 2014, when she made an impassioned plea in a case having to do with whether or not Hobby Lobby should be required to provide free birth control for its female employees–admittedly, something I’m deeply concerned with.
The Ginsburg meme, known as the Notorious RBG, then went viral on Tumblr, taking its place alongside worshipful tributes to the kid who shot up that Batman movie in Colorado and GIFs of James Deen working Stoya like a part-time job (against her will, to hear her tell it).
It always seemed kinda astroturfed to me, not unlike Issa Rae’s web series, the Adventures of Skee Ball, or whatever it’s called. I read a million and one articles about it, in the kind of places where you’d read such articles, but I couldn’t imagine young people actually giving a shit about it.
Not once they’ve seen James Deen in action. Nullus.
It also seemed like a gross way for scammers to make money from someone else’s likeness. The once-burgeoning Notorious RBG merch industry, like Bossip, is almost certainly run by Arabs who could just as easily be trading in counterfeit leather goods or kidnapped Eastern European women.
There’s also a Notorious RBG book, which has a cover that’s more similar to the cover of Kanye West Superstar than I’d prefer. On the blog promoting the book–hosted on Tumblr, natch–there’s a post in which the book’s authors cop a plea, citing a case in which Ginsburg took a bold stance against racism. (Their online store offers 74 different Notorious RBG merch items.)
In fact, all it takes is a little googling to prove that Ginsburg was questionable from jump.
She was close personal friends with Antonin Scalia (who was murdered by the Illuminati this past February), to the point where their families spent holidays and went on vacation together. Scalia once famously said that black kids weren’t smart enough to go to good colleges, and therefore affirmative action is unnecessary.
And according to an article in the Washington Post the other day, she purposely chose not to cosign dissents written by wise Latina Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in cases having to do with fatal police shootings and unlawful search and seizure–further proof, as far as I’m concerned, that she’s officially in favor of police brutality.
You get the sense that, in trying to find a Supreme Court Justice to anoint, the girls who came up with this BS picked the one who most resembled themselves and worked backwards from there, ascribing positive values which they conveniently pulled from their asses.
If only we’d identified the same thought process before it led to the imminent election of Hillary Clinton, feminist icon who’s in cahoots with the Saudis; who ran interference for her husband’s many “bimbo eruptions”; who presided over the deaths of a million Iraqis, so on and so forth.
Take it easy on yourself,
Bol
Originally published at tinyletter.com.
