The 14th Amendment

[nhboy]

"The 14th Amendment protects all races -- not only the blacks." (A. Scalia)

 

[Tilted]

"The 14th Amendment protects all races -- not only the blacks." (A. Scalia)

When someone places a statement in double quotations ("... ") and attributes it to a specific person (e.g. by writing their name immediately after it), people typically assume that the person actually said or wrote exactly what was within the quotation marks. That's kind of the point of quotations. Omissions or changes within the quoted statement should be clearly indicated (e.g. by use of ellipses or brackets). If you're just going to paraphrase what someone said, you shouldn't use double quotations. Doing so isn't artistic license, it's lying.

 

[Bann]

Since I have NHBoy on ignore and cannot see his post - what is his point? Was that the only thing he posted? Was there an article or some other source for the post?

 

[Tilted]

Since I have NHBoy on ignore and cannot see his post - what is his point? Was that the only thing he posted? Was there an article or some other source for the post?

He posted this:

"The 14th Amendment protects all races -- not only the blacks." (A. Scalia)

That would have come from oral argument that the Supreme Court heard Tuesday in an affirmative action case. What Justice Scalia said was:

My goodness, I thought we've -- we've held that the 14th Amendment protects all races. I mean, that was the argument in the early years, that it protected only -- only the blacks. But I thought we rejected that. You -- you say now that we have to proceed as though its purpose is not to protect whites, only to protect minorities?

He was responding to one of the attorneys who was asking the Court "to bring the 14th Amendment back to its original purpose and meaning, which is to protect minority rights against a white majority, which did not occur in this case."

 

[Bann]

He posted this:



That would have come from oral argument that the Supreme Court heard Tuesday in an affirmative action case. What Justice Scalia said was:



He was responding to one of the attorneys who was asking the Court "to bring the 14th Amendment back to its original purpose and meaning, which is to protect minority rights against a white majority, which did not occur in this case."

Thanks!

 

[nhboy]

Since I have NHBoy on ignore and cannot see his post - what is his point? Was that the only thing he posted? Was there an article or some other source for the post?

lol! nhboy cannot be ignored, especially by the ignorant.

 

[Gilligan]

lol! nhboy cannot be ignored, especially by the ignorant.

Scum is easily ignored...by pretty much anyone.

 

[Toxick]

lol! nhboy cannot be ignored, especially by the ignorant.

Oh, how I hope you start referring to yourself in the third person.

There is nothing so endearing as referring to oneself in the third person.