A feminist journalist said that the nomination announcement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement to the Supreme Court was “a display of Amy Coney Barrett weaponizing her white womanhood.”
“This whole press conference is a display of Amy Coney Barrett weaponizing her white womanhood to grab whatever power managed to slip through the cracks in the Trump administration’s unrelenting misogyny,” tweeted journalist Christine Grimaldi.
“Trump and Barrett using her black children and child with down syndrome to score political points isn’t surprising, but it’s no less appalling,” she added. “CNN keeps going on and on about Barrett’s family, as if that makes her qualified to serve on the Supreme Court, and a whopping three years as a Trump-appointed federal judge, as if that’s enough to qualify for a lifetime on the Supreme Court.”
Grimaldi subsequently set her Twitter account to “protected” following backlash for the comments, NewsBusters reported.
What would the hateful Left have Amy Coney Barrett do? Hide her black children? Only appear in public with her white, non-disabled children? These people are sick. https://t.co/7EzH4RWtcp
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) September 27, 2020
Grimaldi works as a senior political reporter for Rewire News Group, which describes itself as a “nonprofit media organization dedicated to reshaping the national dialogue on all things sex by making it more inclusive, positive, and centered on justice.”
Barrett is the mother of seven children, two of whom were adopted from Haiti. She has been denounced by some for her Catholic faith and has met fierce pushback for being nominated so close to an election.
A Boston University professor and CBS News contributor also received swift backlash after suggesting Barrett is a “white colonizer” for adopting two black children.
“Some White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children. They ‘civilized’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity,” Boston University’s Ibram Kendi tweeted on Saturday in a thread.
Sen. Tom Cotton was among those condemning Kendi’s tweets, saying: “Ibram Kendi launches a cruel, racist attack against Judge Barrett and her family. But what else would we expect from a fraud like him?”
