From the indispensable Ignatz:
“States’ rights” doctrine has been used throughout American history to justify positions that are to the advantage of white people and to the disadvantage of Black people (this is, I trust, completely undisputed by any reasonable person) — and that, whether or not some intentional group- based hatred is involved on the part of any current individual so-called “federalist”, the doctrine is used by Pryor and others at this point in American history to justify positions that are systematically to the disadvantage of Black people, women, disabled people, older people, gay people, poor people …
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