We need a conservative but let's make it difficult for our opponents to oppose our nominee by choosing someone who is black and female ---yeah, that's racist and sexist.
That's entirely different from "We need a liberal but let's make it difficult for our opponents to oppose our nominee by choosing someone who is black and female". It is only racist when one side does it, it isn't racist when the other side does the exact same thing.
Except that most liberals don't have problems with black or female candidates. In fact, most liberals can see the benefit of gaining a different perspective than the typical white/male.
Sure. It's not like words like "token", "Uncle Tom", or "Black face of White Supremacy" have ever been uttered by liberals furious that minorities have left the plantation. Minorities who are tired of being treated like property are constantly denigrated that way.
As far as I can see, it's not the left who's going nuts over the idea that Biden will nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.
I see it. The people whose only concern is the demographic checkboxes are those who are "left", "liberal", or "progressive". Everyone else is laughing at putting demographics as a primary consideration.
I do, however, feel very comfortable that Biden will appoint a well qualified candidate (with several back ups) who are going to be female and black and it's about goddam time someone did.
That's nice. All the talk is about demographic checkboxes and there is no talk at this time about qualifications. It is almost as if Democrats think demographics is a qualification yet experience isn't. That's rather racist.