Antonin Scalia argued today that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is a "racial entitlement."
He further argued that the increasing popularity of the Act (reauthorized by the Senate in 2006 by a vote of 98-0) reflected the rising fear of being called racist, not a rising general consensus that limiting voting rights by race is a proundly undemocratic and shitty thing to do.
One question: if the fear of being *called* a racist is so intimidating that people will stop *doing* racist things, then exactly how often do we need to call Antonin Scalia a HUGE fucking racist before he changes his ways?
(Answer: Cannot compute at this time. We're going to have to invent some entirely new math, Isaac Newton style, because Scalia's racist assholery is truly beyond the measurement of our current science.)
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