[California]Judge Curiel is ... the subject of sustained criticism from Donald Trump, who insists that because Curiel “happens to be, we believe, Mexican” he cannot fairly adjudicate the two class action lawsuits filed by former students against Donald Trump’s “University” over which he is presiding. For doing his job, Curiel has been smeared by Trump and his surrogates. Trump called Curiel “a hater” and said that because Trump wants to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, Curiel has an “inherent conflict of interest.”
Meanwhile, also in California, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky announced sentencing on Monday that Brock Allen Turner, a Stanford University freshman convicted of three felonies. Turner faced a maximum possible sentence of 14 years. In its sentencing menu, prosecutors asked for Turner to receive a six year prison term. But Judge Persky sentenced Turner to a mere six months in jail. Persky said that Turner had no “significant” prior offenses, that there was “less moral culpability attached to the defendant” because he was allegedly drunk during the assault, and that Turner had already been harmed by the intense media coverage. It’s almost as though Persky felt badly for Turner that he had to suffer the consequences of his own heinous crime.
And herein we have the conflation of these two situations, in which Donald Trump—a white man who very much demands to be treated with kid gloves and whines about unfairness when he is not—lambasts a non-white judge for doing his job and makes his attack entirely about the judge’s ethnicity and race.Yet it appears Persky, a white man, treated Brock Turner with kid gloves in part because Turner is a white man. We see difference where we want to and in turn privilege sameness.
In Trump’s mind, and perhaps in the mind of Turner’s friend and certainly the mind of many of the white supremacists Trump’s candidacy has energized, people of color and women are the ones getting an unfair leg up in society and white men are the ones being oppressed. Specifically, the men’s rights extremists argue that feminist vigilance against sexual assault and “rape culture” amounts to anti-male oppression — attitudes that have found support among even mainstream conservative thinkers.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...cal-correctness-and-a-tale-of-two-judges.html
Meanwhile, also in California, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky announced sentencing on Monday that Brock Allen Turner, a Stanford University freshman convicted of three felonies. Turner faced a maximum possible sentence of 14 years. In its sentencing menu, prosecutors asked for Turner to receive a six year prison term. But Judge Persky sentenced Turner to a mere six months in jail. Persky said that Turner had no “significant” prior offenses, that there was “less moral culpability attached to the defendant” because he was allegedly drunk during the assault, and that Turner had already been harmed by the intense media coverage. It’s almost as though Persky felt badly for Turner that he had to suffer the consequences of his own heinous crime.
And herein we have the conflation of these two situations, in which Donald Trump—a white man who very much demands to be treated with kid gloves and whines about unfairness when he is not—lambasts a non-white judge for doing his job and makes his attack entirely about the judge’s ethnicity and race.Yet it appears Persky, a white man, treated Brock Turner with kid gloves in part because Turner is a white man. We see difference where we want to and in turn privilege sameness.
In Trump’s mind, and perhaps in the mind of Turner’s friend and certainly the mind of many of the white supremacists Trump’s candidacy has energized, people of color and women are the ones getting an unfair leg up in society and white men are the ones being oppressed. Specifically, the men’s rights extremists argue that feminist vigilance against sexual assault and “rape culture” amounts to anti-male oppression — attitudes that have found support among even mainstream conservative thinkers.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...cal-correctness-and-a-tale-of-two-judges.html
