Thread by @jedshug

Remarkably, @baseballcrank's defense of Ilya Shapiro's anti-identitarian tweets...
plays the identity card.
Ilya's anti-affirmative action stems from his family's experience of anti-Semitism.
So race & ethnic lived experience are relevant to judgment, eh?
nationalreview.com/corner/the-dis…

2) I'm not sure what @baseballcrank is trying to say with this word salad.
I think it's a non-sequitur play of the Russian Jew identity card.
Is some logical connection between the different parts of the sentence? I wouldn't want to assume so, b/c that could be stereotyping.

3) Here's @baseballcrank playing the Russian-Jew ethnic card a second time.
I'm glad we agree that race, ethnicity, family & lived experience & empathy are all relevant to interpreting law:

4) Apparently @baseballcrank agrees the basic fact of ethnic background - a Russian Jew who experienced prejudice - is a relevant factor to explain judgment.

So I think he'd agree that a Black woman's experience of prejudice is also relevant to good legal judgment in America.

5) Oddly, @baseballcrank reflexively assumes that the experience of anti-Semitism logically explains opposition to diversifying our legal institutions.
My family's experience of anti-Semitism led us to support civil rights.
Maybe he'd benefit from a more diverse experience?