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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington surrounded by family. She was 87.
"Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice."
Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.
(Score: 2) by Kell on Sunday September 20 2020, @12:20PM (2 children)
You seem to have missed the part where I explicitly highlighted that I do not know what the solution is; I'm skeptical of anyone who has a pithy motto that supposedly will fix society's ills.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday September 20 2020, @08:38PM (1 child)
And you seemed to have missed my point where I stated that spending time on sophisticated but bloodless critiques of "The System" and seeding resentment with statements like "It should stop" is part of the problem.
(Score: 2) by Kell on Sunday September 20 2020, @11:55PM
I did not miss your point, but I disagreed with your thesis. Given that in the same post you highlighted the damage and death caused by bloody critiques, I'd say that sophisticated but bloodless critique is probably coming out ahead. Furthermore, I would hardly say I'm 'seeding resentment' so much as expressing my own identification of a problem (I have no illusions that I will change anyone's opinion in Soylent). If we do not critique our own society we have no capacity to change it; individuals expressing sentiments such as "This is bad and it should stop" is the societal equivalent of nociception: "Ow, I hurt. I should alter what I'm doing."
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.