"You just want the Word"

[cthulu2016]

When Roberts (I think it was him) got into the why aren't civil unions enough thing yesterday, about how "you just want the word," I was struck by how often this form of argument comes up, and how easily it can be dismissed.

If what I want is so utterly trivial, why are you digging in your heels to deny it?

That response would be more politic than what I might have said if someone was crazy enough to let me argue with the Supreme Court... my first thought was: "I thought this court had settled 'separate but equal' in the 1950s. If you want me to re-litigate it, however, I can read Brown vs. Board of Education into the record."

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1. Did someone actually respond to Roberts with

that quote at the bottom?

[cthulu2016]

2. Only me, in my mind (!)

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3. Too bad

I would have paid a pile of cash to have been there and seen the look on Roberts face.

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4. .