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🗓️ 4 July 2023
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf. |
0:22.8 | You probably don't need me to list off last week's supreme atrocities for you, but I'm going to anyway. |
0:28.6 | There was the decision handed down by the Supreme Court last week ending affirmative action in |
0:33.5 | college admissions. My advice shift to class-based affirmative action. I support race-based |
0:39.2 | affirmative action because of course I do and fuck Clarence Thomas because of course, |
0:43.9 | fuck Clarence Thomas, but shifting to class-based affirmative action will accomplish a lot of what |
0:49.0 | race-based affirmative action did while helping enough fucking poor white people to make it politically |
0:54.0 | bulletproof. Last week the court also threw out Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, which was |
0:59.7 | cheered by dozens of Republican politicians who'd had their PPP loans forgiven themselves. |
1:05.3 | And in a category, all by itself, for reasons I'm about to get into the decision in 303 creative. |
1:12.8 | The Supreme Court ruled in 303 creative that discriminating against gay people is constitutional, |
1:18.9 | at least discriminating against gay couples, but only for religious bigots, which is ironic. |
1:24.6 | Since gay anti-discrimination statutes weren't designed to protect us from cosmologists, |
1:30.0 | they were designed to protect gay people from religious bigots. Saying laws that ban discrimination |
1:35.8 | against gay people don't apply to people with sincerely held religious beliefs is like saying |
1:40.6 | that laws banning discrimination against black people don't apply to people who can justify |
1:45.2 | their bigotry by pointing to their deep-seated racial animus. Now, we expected this court to kick |
1:52.0 | a hole in anti-discrimination laws to protect gay people. Everybody saw this coming, but what we |
1:57.3 | didn't expect, because nobody ever expects the imaginary gay couple. Now, the love cast, of course, |
2:04.2 | is not a law and politics podcast. I am not a lawyer for legal analysis. Listen to Amicus with |
2:10.0 | Dahlia Lithwick, listen to Emily Baselon on the Slate political gap best, read Chris Guidener's |
2:15.0 | law-dork sub-stack. But I know enough about the law to know what standing is. Standing |
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