For the rest of you, memorize this, recite it in the shower, write it on your hand: "Unless I'm being discriminated against on the basis of my race, I will stop being a pain in everyone's ass."
Ann Coulter "For at least a half-century now, every special pleader in America has made the following argument: Yeah, but what if we were black?
"This is supposed to be rhetorical kryptonite, capable of anathematizing "discrimination" against any group: atheists, women, gays, immigrants, illegal immigrants, the disabled, Muslims -- basically anyone except a fully abled, cis-gendered, white male born in this country.
"Oh my gosh! You're right -- we DO have to let girls try out for the Green Bay Packers!
"OK, fine, we'll hire more blind lifeguards.
"Of course, Shadi Abdullah is welcome to be president of our campus Hillel group.
"Naturally, the "What if they were black?" argument came up ad nauseum at the Supreme Court last week during oral arguments over Colorado's "anti-discrimination" law. According to Colorado, making two gay guys who are married to one another feel "unwelcome, objectionable, unacceptable or undesirable" is the equivalent of separate water fountains for black people.
"A web designer had petitioned the court, objecting to the law's requirement that she design a website celebrating a gay marriage, in contravention of her religious beliefs. But if you'd heard only the questions from Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, you'd think the petitioner was refusing to design websites for black people.
E.g.: JUSTICE JACKSON: "[C]an I ask you a hypothetical ... [What if] they want to have a sign next to the [shopping mall] Santa that says, 'only white children.' Why isn't your argument that they should be able to do that?" [The hypothetical went on for hours, but that was the gist of it.]
"These were a few of Justice Sotomayor's questions:. . .
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