General Discussion

Chasstev365

(8,385 posts) Mon Jun 29, 2026, 08:08 PM Monday

Amy Coney Barrett's adopted Haitian children are not dumb

I would have loved to have been there when she explained to them why Haitians can't stay in America.

Well kids, it's all part of God's plan...

9 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Amy Coney Barrett's adopted Haitian children are not dumb (Original Post) Chasstev365 Monday OP

Do you know your place? underpants Monday #1

She would have told them that they were different. Special. Chosen. Above the rest. Solly Mack Monday #2

Exactly. That God had ordained that they would be hers, etc. hamsterjill Monday #5

Yep. The religious right will tie themselves up into knots and then claim their contortion ball is a symbol of God. Solly Mack Monday #8

She can explain "Separate but Equal" to them. Norrrm Monday #3

She can explain "don't go around ICE" to them Seinan Sensei Monday #7

How does anyone know that? Maybe they are. Maybe they aren't. RockRaven Monday #4

I don't think the post had anything to do with their IQ, but rather their awareness. hamsterjill Monday #6

Some indoctrination succeeds more than others, some people are more susceptible to indoctrination than others, RockRaven Monday #9

underpants

(197,906 posts)

1. Do you know your place?

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 08:11 PM

Monday

Solly Mack

(97,471 posts)

2. She would have told them that they were different. Special. Chosen. Above the rest.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 08:18 PM

Monday

Not the same.

Never underestimate hypocrisy and the ability to rationalize.

hamsterjill

(17,977 posts)

5. Exactly. That God had ordained that they would be hers, etc.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 11:02 PM

Monday

Yada...yada...yada.

If someone doesn't think these Christian Nationalists can rationalize ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, then come on down to Texas and let me show them all of the defenses I'm seeing about Paxton getting caught on video leaving for Iceland with his mistress. They truly believe that they are better than everyone else, or they wouldn't be acting the way they act.

I am a Christian, but I am not one of those! The very idea that someone would put one above another is abhorrent.

Solly Mack

(97,471 posts)

8. Yep. The religious right will tie themselves up into knots and then claim their contortion ball is a symbol of God.

Reply to hamsterjill (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 11:26 PM

Monday

Norrrm

(6,167 posts)

3. She can explain "Separate but Equal" to them.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 08:43 PM

Monday

Seinan Sensei

(1,740 posts)

7. She can explain "don't go around ICE" to them

Reply to Norrrm (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 11:12 PM

Monday

RockRaven

(20,101 posts)

4. How does anyone know that? Maybe they are. Maybe they aren't.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 09:12 PM

Monday

Until they are adults with publicly visible behavior to judge, I have no opinion on the question of their intelligence and see no value in assuming anything about them.

hamsterjill

(17,977 posts)

6. I don't think the post had anything to do with their IQ, but rather their awareness.

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 11:10 PM

Monday

They know they are adopted and they know that they looked differently than her other children as they grew up. They are bound to know their background and heritage as they are not babies. They are in their early twenties now.

Wouldn't you question why others just like you were being treated differently if you were in their shoes?

RockRaven

(20,101 posts)

9. Some indoctrination succeeds more than others, some people are more susceptible to indoctrination than others,

Reply to hamsterjill (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 11:34 PM

Monday

so maybe they have internalized a bunch of nonsense or maybe they haven't. I don't know. Until I see something to inform an opinion, I have none.

My own predictions about what I would do or be in their shoes aren't much use, I don't think.

I have experienced being around enough people who were indoctrinated as children into self-hatred and self-abuse that I do not assume out of hand that any particular people will reject such just because I think that a smart or self-respecting person ought to do so. They often do not.

Reply to this discussion