When a governing body has more Catholics in it than the actual percentage of Catholics in the population they control, you are, in fact, morally, ethically, and procedurally forbidden to introduce more Catholics
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
FYI if this goes viral on conservative Twitter someone's going to go off on you about how the SCOTUS had a higher percentage of Jews than the population too
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I mean I oppose putting too many Jews on the Supreme Court either, our lives are hard enough without having to constantly apologize for these dipshits
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
In all seriousness if you forced the SCOTUS to match the US population's religious affiliation demographically you'd have two Catholics, two mainline Protestants, two evangelicals, two "nones", and one "Other"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
The one Other justice would be somewhat more Jewish than anything else, but they'd also have to be Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu, and then a bunch of other things (a tiny little bit of Wiccan etc in there)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I've always found the Senate is the ideal tool to explain representation to people. It's not just the exact mapping of 100 to percentage, but it's a manageable number to grasp is terms of what a room full of senators should look like, and what we actually see.
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Replying to @social_scifi @Nymphomachy
I don't really like this kind of argument because, to be blunt, I am in favor of "overrepresentation" of minorities That's the whole fucking point, as minorities they need more power in order to protect themselves
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"Hurrr if the Senate matched the population there'd only be two Jewish Senators" Yeah I know that, what's your point
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