***Let me state from the beginning that at NO point do I agree with anything about this turn of events….I offer it up solely to show just how f*cked up these douche-bags are***
I grew up in the South so at my age I am well aware of the segregation and the ‘Whites Only” signs that were plastered everywhere.
Since about 2010 there has been more harsh language from nationalism and the tearing apart the Constitution…..and now it is becoming more and more troubling since that d/bag took office.
This is a paper that won an award for content….
A white nationalist recently won an academic award for his law school paper arguing how the constitution only applies to white people.
Preston Damsky, a proud white nationalist and antisemite, garnered acclaimed from a University of Florida professor over his paper detailing his interpretation of the doctrine. Last fall, he wrote the paper on “originalism” for the law school seminar. An idea upheld by many conservatives, originalism interprets the constitution as written during its original time period.
According to the New York Times, a Trump-appointed judge who taught the class awarded Damsky the highest honor for his paper. In his assignment, Damsky argued that “We The People,” as first written on the Constitution’s Preamble, actually refers to white people. With this mindset, he defended the idea of stripping voting rights for nonwhite citizens.
He further stated his support for shoot-to-kill orders toward “criminal infiltrators at the border.” He also referred to an America where white people did not make up the majority as a “terrible crime.” Damsky later uttered that white people “cannot be expected to meekly swallow this demographic assault on their sovereignty.”
Instead of concern for his viewpoints, his professor, Judge John L. Badalamenti, congratulated him on his provocative essay. Damsky received the book award, granted to the best student in the class, for his detailed work. Badalamenti did not comment on why he chose his recipient.
The award issuance sparked controversy across the school, with opposers stating Damsky’s recognition undermines his dangerous rhetoric. Despite the calls to revoke his award, the University of Florida’s interim dean Merritt McAlister affirmed the matter, citing his “free speech rights.” McAlister also noted “institutional neutrality,” a new term in the rise of anti-DEI policies where schools remain impartial on political issues.
However, Damsky’s academic language did not continue on the internet. Months after the dean’s decision, Damsky created an X account to further showcase his views. His post that Jewish people must be ” abolished by any means necessary,” led to his latest scandal.
The jarring remark led to the University of Florida suspending him and barring him from campus. The University even boosted police presence at the law school. However, others believe the initial celebration of his works empowered Damsky to become even louder with his racist beliefs.
The issue also comes at a time where free speech has its own interpretation in Florida public institutions. One professor called out the double standards of Damsky being able to write his essay while she had to change the name of her class over its assertion of race.
(blackenterprise.com)
To me this is clearly racist BS….truth be told if one thinks about the Founders….who were they?
A bunch of white guys most of whom owned slaves….I can see where the jump can be made….not that I would ever agree with the premise at all.
What about you?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I wonder what he thinks of the native Americans who were here before the settlers? I can have a good guess. People like him should not be being awarded prizes for that kind of Nazi-eugenics crap.
Best wishes, Pete.
I agree and if I am not mistaken the preamble came from the Iroquois Confederation…chuq
It’s not like whites were the original occupans anyway but noone stopped them at the border
True they pretty much did as they wanted. chuq
I can only speak for me, but ever since Trump 1.0 and the Great Divide of the nation to the present, one of the greater arguments from the Right has been constant references to the Founders and their overall intent in creating what they created. That somehow these guys should be near “worship” level for being “so wise”. I am constantly pointing out to MAGAists that the Declaration is simply that.. a declaration to the King of England… and not enshrined “law of the land”. And that The Federalist Papers are a collection of opinions of the day from three respected ‘opinionators” of the day… also not enshrined “law of the land”… or extensions of the Constitution. The nonsense about the “the true intent and meaning of the Amendments is obvious if you interpret what these guys the wrote…” on the sidelines. Huh?
Yes… all those fellows in the peppered wigs standing around with pen and parchment in their hands appearing to pose for the artists of the day… were just the typical male-dominated power-elites of their day, who owned slaves. Not all were “Christian”… a few were even agnostic or athiest. Many were womanizers on the side, some even had a history of taking liberties with their female slaves. More important…. these guys were trying to create a government that allowed them to exercise free trade in an environment of a non-interfering government… since they all had a vested interest in making a profit. While the paintings show them all as stalwart and regal partisans of liberty, in complete agreement… in the end they were just human beings.. not “gods of freedom”. They debated all things vehemently on every period and comma; agreement itself was perhaps the greatest unwritten battle of our Revolution. Even ratification of the Constitution by the states themselves was an uphill battle. Just look at today.. the concept of “freedom” is different for each person as it was back then.
BUT… what DOES matter is that all these guys had the kahunas to defy England, and ultimately invest in real money and their lives in a pursuit of a dream of an applied liberty unique at the time. They did this with about the support of only 50% of the typical public. (that percentage sound familiar?) But all that they did back then has managed to stay relevant for nearly 250 years now. So perhaps the truer question in all this… who is to be “worshipped” in our America… the guys who set down the rules at a time when “equality” meant the equality of a white America, or the subsequent generations of regular folks like us who managed to carve out a greater symbol of freedom, and pay that forward?
Since there is none of the Founders around today we cannot be sure what they intended….the America that came afterward was a great thing. chuq
If it is going to become impossible to see the constitution for the way it was written and the intentions that were written into it, then it is time for dispose of the archaic and embrace a constitutional convention to make a new constitution that will fit the expectations of the modern American….
Stellar idea but one that will never see the light….our politicians like vague wording….and about half the nation as well….chuq