“Responsible type” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL If by responsible you mean “in it for herself”.

My question here is, when men get involved with women like this, are they confused by what’s about to visited upon them? Are they unaware they’ve turned their life over to an unreasonable, unpleasant termagant? Is this on purpose?

I guess it would depend...

Not nearly as impressive, but. . . My ex-boyfriend’s dog could unwrap sandwiches silently. Wax paper, aluminum foil, newspaper, didn’t matter. Stone cold silent. Golden-Afghan Hound mutt - basically, a Golden with an Afghan’s tail and desire to run. The running, and her ability to unwrap sandwiches - I missed the dog…

I think you think that Fisher’s anti-affirmative action stance causes the rest of us to believe she is also a virulent racist, and that’s actually the basis of your objection.

And what I’m saying is that her personal allegiance to the cause is irrelevant, in that she cosigned and slapped her name on this whole fucking circus, which stood to change the course of American fucking society, for the worse. How she, you and anyone else have the gall to say now it wasn’t her primary concern is…

There may not be a legal framework to sue on the other holistic considerations.

She set the stage; the unfairness of race as a weighted category was her premise. Therefore, why not explore that idea to its depths before choosing question her on some unrelated topic about which she hasn’t instigated a Supreme Court case? Also, what else is remotely interesting about this woman? What is it that you…

My sister and brother (the right side of the blanket ones, cuz I have others heh Papa was a rollin’ stone) were in Jack and Jill; my sister, the doctor, was a debutante, in AKA, and went to Spelman; my brother, the road construction guy (we’re all confused as to why, he’s not making any money) is an Kappa and a Mason…

It’s a fairly typical phenomenon. Like what we imagine all the old-money, WASP-y places (Connecticut? Rhode Island? Manhattan?) to be like. Tom and Buffy and Cord and Taffy - they all know each other and always have and everyone vacations here and goes to school there and banks at this place and only lives in these…

You are asserting that Abigail Fisher entered into this case (with a third-party backer) for reasons other than undermining affirmative action.

WHY WOULD WE? Her claims are stated clearly.

Are you seriously making the argument that because her case was funded by a third party, her claims as plaintiff don’t count for herself? Because that’s woefully fucking stupid.

If you understood the byzantine social life/stratification of the South/West, this would make sense to you. As a black woman of a certain financial class from Birmingham, there are plenty of people I “know of” because my family has some kinda relationship with their family, and about whom I could make some spot-on…

That’s an interesting theory. It is, unfortunately, completely erroneous, as you’ve been told a number of times.

Rare: I have learned a new word. Embonpoint. Wonderful!

Brock has reminded me I need to call my mother and thank her...

Stating a preference for being with one’s own people ≠ treating people differently.

(I’m going to regret this.)

Don’t think so, because most defendants (1) don’t have this platform and (2) aren’t quite this stupid. And what’s he saying? That the judge is biased? There’s no defendant that doesn’t either believe it or isn’t willing to say it depending on the where the case is in trial, and whether the outcome’s looking positive.