OozmaKappa wrote:
surveysays wrote:
Not one person has articulated why I should feel bad for these racists.
. . . . or why anyone should care about what goes on in people's personal lives.
That should not even need to be explained to you.
The manner is which people think and behave in private undoubtedly affects how they perform their public jobs. That's just a fact of biology. And in certain contexts, private behavior and thoughts can and do unfairly bias a person in their public job.
Would you want to be arguing a case before a judge who had privately expressed animosity to your demographic (gender, age, race, religion, economic class, etc.)? Can you really not understand why a black person might be skeptical that they were going to get a fair shot in front of this judge, given what we know about her private behavior?
I think you lose a lot of credibility in this thread trying to defend the judge in the manner you are doing. She may not deserve suspension or any punishment at all, but for you to argue that any and all private behavior is of no consequence at all, as you appear to be doing, is unreasonable (if not ridiculous).