The Triumph of Disdain: Patriarchy & the Boys at SCOTUS

In yesterday’s video, I cited male SCOTUS judges informing us they weren’t within the present case earlier than them however about “the long run.”

Disdain—a “worth” all over the place cherished by Patriarchy– is all over the place in SCOTUS’s pontificating.  

Webster’s defines “disdain” as “a sense of contempt for what’s beneath one.  Scorn.”  (“Conceitedness” additionally defines disdain.)

This SCOTUS sees everybody as beneath them and shows disdain regularly.  Allow us to start to depend the methods:

Disdain for primary judicial ethics, i. e. recusing your self when you’ve gotten an apparent battle of curiosity.   Justice Clarence Thomas thinks it’s simply wonderful and dandy to remain on the bench to preach on presidential immunity regarding January 6—although his activist spouse was current and cheering on Trump’s speech that set the riot on movement and wrote emails to his chief of employees urging him on.  (The identical chief of employees is underneath indictment in quite a few courts for his position within the sordid affair).

Disdain for guidelines of taking bribes from billionaires, with Thomas taking such items as 1 / 4 million-dollar motorhome; a house for his mom; schooling for his little one; luxurious journeys to luxurious resorts, and many others.; and different items from billionaires to Justice Alito as nicely.

Disdain for voters considering an upcoming presidential election.  Voters have the proper to study the complete reality behind the January 6 rebel earlier than they forged a vote.  To postpone Trump’s trial the place the information can come out is vanity and scorn at its worst.

Disdain for ladies.  Ending Roe vs Wade and turning one’s again on the phobia and ache it has brought on to pregnant women and girls all over the place constitutes pure misogyny.  And unleashing worry on medical doctors by threatening them with jail for doing their job aiding pregnant ladies can also be misogynistic.  (As if America has a surplus of medical doctors and nobody will discover in the event that they go off to jail.)

Disdain for the rule of regulation. 

Disdain for the structure which by no means talks of immunity for presidents (that was for kings and contemporary within the minds of those that wrote the structure in any case).

Disdain for the separation of church and state.

Disdain for democracy, outlined by the primary Republican president as “authorities of, by and for the individuals.”  

To be continued.

See “Conceitedness” in Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 185, 198f., 202-206, 218, 225, 232, 259-261, 307.

Banner Picture: Clarence Thomas: “Face of the Republican Get together” Picture by Jeff Gates on Flickr.

Queries for Contemplation

Do you sense disdain and scorn together with vanity and patriarchal privilege within the selections and attitudes of no less than 4 males on the present “supreme” courtroom?  How omnipresent is disdain and scorn in politics right this moment?  How transfer past it?

Advisable Studying

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox gives a brand new theology of evil that essentially adjustments the normal notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anybody single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics