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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Troll score = 0

[b]Ethnic diversity[/b] (as well as any sort of diversity on SCOTUS, such as sexual, religious, SES, age, etc) increases SCOTUS's ability [b]to avoid bias[/b] by providing 9 (ahem, SHOULD be 9) exceptional minds who don't all think the same way.

If a plurality of opinions didn't make the court smarter, than SCOTUS would be one person, wouldn't it?

You are a really bad troll.[/quote]

You just reaffirmed the thesis that ethnic background can cause biased judgement.[/quote]

Logic failure! Diversity avoids bias, dummy. Or do you think that white male judge who only gave the white male rapist a 6-month sentence was totally cool? Oh, you're a DT supporter, so obviously you're white, so yeah, [i]diversity's bad for you[/i] since it decreases your privilege.  [/quote]

Hmm.

In my experience as a non-white non-black immigrant, blacks are much more biased than whites. So, not sure I buy that diversity argument, unless you mean something very different from race itself.[/quote]

Diversity doesn't necessarily avoid bias. But it can help. I don't think the judge in the Brock whatever-his-name-is case should have given such a light sentence, but neither do I agree with the calls for his removal. It's important for the judiciary to be independent. Some judges are light sentencers and some are heavy sentencers. For some it will depend on the case. And for many people, judges or not, unconscious bias comes into play. It's well documented that black defendants on average get heavier sentences than white defendants, regardless of the race of the judge. It's also well documented that sexual assault tends to result in lighter sentences than comparable violent crimes. Would a female judge of any race have given a heavier sentence? Maybe. Maybe not. There are so many factors at play that it's difficult to say in an individual case.[/quote]

I agree with a lot of what you say, which is why I believe previous poster saying "diversity avoids bias, dummy" is being either naive childish or adult stupidish.[/quote]

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