Well, as for that CT fire fighters case, I did not read the case, but I understand what DH is saying. He is approaching this from a very legalistic standpoint; what about how she reached her decision do you have a problem with. And that's I think because apparently from what I have gleaned, and I am no lawyer, she made a decision based on very established case law and that even it would have been difficult not to decide as she did. DH is very good at arguing those kinds of points, that's why people like SF get nervous when they see his name, and other Republicans start calling him names, because what else are they going to refute him with?
But I am always incited by the passionate and emotional underpinnings of situations. And I passionately and immediately thought to myself that if not one African American who is ALREADY performing the job of fire fighting, passed that test, then, something is wrong with the test.
Further, the idea that white males in this country, in any country really, are in any way oppressed by judicial or societal attempts to level the historically fucked up playing field, to be ludicrous and absurd, and quite frankly, pitiful. If you are a white male making this argument just hand in your penis today because you will never have need of it.