“Ketanji Brown Jackson brings needed diversity to the Court: I think that the majority religion of the country should have at least one good representative”
I dispute calling this a hot take, because it is a joke. You might as well call A Modest Proposal a hot take. There’s a grey area between joking and sincere, the “haha just kidding… unless?” space, but when your “take” is indistinguishable from a standup comedy bit, it’s going to get treated like standup comedy.
I genuinely believe that it’s a good thing for the majority religion of the country to have at least one representative on the Supreme Court who understands it in the way that it can be difficult for a non-native. I think it’s particularly bad for legitimacy to have an entirely Catholic and Jewish court. I agree the statement is structured as a joke, but I believe there should ideally be at least one man, at least one woman, at least one Protestant, and I know that this one is more of a stretch for lifecycle and class reasons but I’d like to have at least one renter (one third of American households), at least not a geographic mono-culture, etc.
I dispute calling this a hot take, because it is a joke. You might as well call A Modest Proposal a hot take. There’s a grey area between joking and sincere, the “haha just kidding… unless?” space, but when your “take” is indistinguishable from a standup comedy bit, it’s going to get treated like standup comedy.
I genuinely believe that it’s a good thing for the majority religion of the country to have at least one representative on the Supreme Court who understands it in the way that it can be difficult for a non-native. I think it’s particularly bad for legitimacy to have an entirely Catholic and Jewish court. I agree the statement is structured as a joke, but I believe there should ideally be at least one man, at least one woman, at least one Protestant, and I know that this one is more of a stretch for lifecycle and class reasons but I’d like to have at least one renter (one third of American households), at least not a geographic mono-culture, etc.