If we wanna do a basic racial/gender breakdown, should be 3 white men, 3 white women, 1 black of either gender, 1 Hispanic, and 1 mystery seat (another Hispanic or maybe an Asian) We currently have: 3 white men 1 Black 1 Latina 3 Jews Jews have taken all the white women seats.https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/1045731206434676736 …
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Another fun fact: 8 of the 113 Supreme Court justices that have ever served have been Jewish. 7%. Despite them only being 2% of population now & (as an example), less than half of one percent of population as recently as 1880. Right historical wrongs: no more jewish justices.
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That is how this works right? “Well women & poc have been historically marginalized. Now is their turn on the court to make up for the past record.” Again: Jews already gobbled up 7%. To retroactively correct that, we can have no more Jewish justices til number balance out again
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The first SC Justice was confirmed in 1789. 229 years ago. We have had 113 justices total. There have been 8 Jews. If we want that number back to 2% (to say nothing of lower percentages of Jews in US historically), we have to have no new Jewish justices til after 400th confirmed
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Really puts things in perspective if we’re playing “the court should represent who we are as a nation by identity”. In 229 years we’ve had 113. To rebalance Jews just to today’s 2% number they “should” have, they shouldn’t be eligible again til after number 400. Maybe 500 years.
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The fact that "Jewish genetics" is a thing (including J genetic disorders) places beyond rational argument that we r dealing with an ethnicity/nationality, not just a religion/ culture. This is y there is an easily recognisable (though not universal) Jewish facial & bodily type.
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Most 'jews' are hebrew; you can only be jewish by blood if you're a descendant of the tribe of Judah, but hundreds and hundreds of years of conflating the 2 has caused a shitload of confusion since the term jewish can mean by religion or ethnicity
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