re: #43 The Curmudgeon

What does bother me about Kagan’s remark is this part: “I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality …”

The implicit message is that it’s this society that is uniquely afflicted by these problems. Yeah, we’re the world’s bad guys.

I think you have to really, really reach to get the idea that she thinks we are the only society so marred.