If he had joked about Jewish kids wearing a Gestapo costume it would be the lede on every story today.

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Anti-black bias is so common and acceptable in this culture that a SCOTUS justice "joking" about Black children wearing Klan outfits is hardly a blip on the radar. The cumulative total of decades and decades of racist "jokes" is dehumanizing. And that's the whole point...

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/YNPierce/status/1600126348126724096

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β€œAnti-black bias is so common and acceptable in this culture that a SCOTUS justice "joking" about Black children wearing Klan outfits is hardly a blip on the radar. The cumulative total of decades and decades of racist "jokes" is dehumanizing. And that's the whole point...”

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It is antiblackness that makes this under-addressed. Not the severity of the problem.
@TheRaDR it's absolutely disgusting that Alito is a sitting Supreme Court Justice. He doesn't deserve his seat, neither do Gorsuch, Barret, or Thomas.