Bice: Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley has been quietly editing her own Wikipedia page
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Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley was scolded by a Wikipedia editor this month for her heavy editing of her own biography on the online encyclopedia.

Last week, a person with the Twitter handle @arizonasunblock from Tampa, Florida, noticed that Bradley, who has been on the high court since 2015, appeared to make major changes to her Wikipedia biography earlier this year.

  • Betty White In HD@lemmy.world
    324·
    1 year ago

    So cool that the course of this country is in part shaped by dumb cunts like her and Clarence Uncle Thomas over there.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s an inaccurate epithet anyhow. Uncle Tom was overly nice to whites so as not to draw their wrath.

      In the end, the whites beat Uncle Tom to death when he refused to give the whereabouts of two runaway slaves.

      I don’t know what epithet you’d call someone who turned in the two slaves and lived to work the big house another day, but that’s what you should call Clarence.

      I used to call Clarence an Uncle Tom, but then I read the book.

      • Betty White In HD@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s close enough, catchy and demeaning enough to him and his position that I am OK with calling him that just like I’m OK with calling Frankenstein’s monster Frankenstein. We all know the origins of the “pull yourself by your bootstraps” and just about everybody still uses it in an earnest way. It’s fine.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
          1·
          1 year ago

          As someone who also read the book and was shocked that Tom wasn’t the minstrel show Tom that really earned the name: this weird effort to take back his name is self defeating and artificial.

          It says quite a lot that people also try to say “Maybe we should call them Uncle Ruckuses instead!”

          Mainly, it says they’re not clued in enough to realize the show/comic had two Uncle Toms. One had Uncle in his name, the other Tom.

          MacGruder wasn’t being very subtle, and yet everyone seems to have missed it anyways.

          Hell, if nothing else this whole weird idea is erasure of the minstrel shows. If you want to raise some actual awareness then feel free to separate Book Tom from Minstrel Tom, because we need to remember both.