{"id":78394,"date":"2020-09-30T02:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-disgusting-war-on-amy-coney-barretts-family\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T02:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T23:25:18","slug":"the-disgusting-war-on-amy-coney-barretts-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-disgusting-war-on-amy-coney-barretts-family\/","title":{"rendered":"#The disgusting war on Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s family"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The disgusting war on Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s family<\/strong>”
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\n Even by the dismal standards of Supreme Court nomination battles when the would-be Supreme is a \u00adRepublican, the attacks against Amy Coney Barrett have been \u00adrepulsive. Perhaps because Barrett\u2019s record is so impeccable \u2014 even her liberal peers laud her intelligence and integrity \u2014 the smears have focused on an area hitherto considered off-limits: the judge\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

Dana Houle, a Democratic activist and former chief of staff to former Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH), sent three tweets Friday questioning Barrett\u2019s decision to adopt two children from earthquake-ravaged Haiti and insinuating the judge and her husband had perhaps acted unethically or illegally.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to know which adoption agency Amy Coney Barrett and her husband used to adopt the two children they brought here from Haiti,\u201d Houle wrote. \u201cSo here\u2019s a question: Does the press even investigate details of Barrett\u2019s adoptions from Haiti?\u201d<\/p>\n

Houle wrote in a follow-up tweet: \u201cSome adoptions from Haiti were legitimate. Many were sketchy as hell. And if the press learned they were unethical and maybe illegal adoptions, would they report it? Or not, because it involves her children?\u201d Houle concluded: \u201cWould it matter if her kids were scooped up by \u00adultra-religious Americans, or Americans weren\u2019t scrupulous intermedia<\/a>ries, and the kids were taken when there was family in Haiti? I dunno. I think it does, but maybe it doesn\u2019t, or shouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ibrahim Kendi, the critical-race-theory guru who is all the rage in corporate settings across the land, offered a similarly repulsive comment. He wrote: \u201cSome white colonizers \u2018adopted\u2019 black children. They \u2018civilized\u2019 these children in the \u2018superior\u2019 ways of white people, while using them as props in their lifelong picture of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kendi went on to try to cover himself by insisting he wasn\u2019t necessarily implying that the Barretts are guilty of such cultural crimes. He was just asking questions, you see. This was \u00adunconscionable, not least \u00adbecause the Barretts\u2019 adopted children are old enough to read these remarks.<\/p>\n

Then there were the attacks against Barrett as a bad mother. In addition to her two adopted children, Vivian and John Peter, Barrett has a son with Down syndrome named Benjamin \u2014 seven in total. You would think all people would cheer the fact that she and her husband have remained open to the love of children, even as they have pursued demanding professional careers \u2014 yet you would think wrong when it comes to the progressive left.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Grigoriadis, a writer for Vanity Fair and New York magazine, wondered out loud: \u201cI guess one of the things I don\u2019t understand about Amy Comey [sic] Barrett is how a potential Supreme Court justice can also be a loving, present mom to seven kids? Is this like the Kardashians stuffing nannies in the closet and pretending they\u2019ve drawn their own baths for their kids?\u201d She went on: \u201cAnd if there aren\u2019t enough hours in the day for her to work and mother those kids, when she portrays herself as a home-centered Catholic who puts family over career, isn\u2019t she telling a lie?\u201d<\/p>\n

For decades, the feminist left told women to seek \u201cself-actualization\u201d in professional careers, even at the expense of the joys of motherhood. Women bought the message and discovered they were miserable. In the last 20 years, as work opportunities have become flexible, however, many women have found ways to combine these two seemingly separate realms and make it work.<\/p>\n

No, it isn\u2019t easy. It takes discipline and time-management. But women like Barrett should be \u00adapp<\/a>lauded \u2014 not scolded \u2014 for striking the balance. Yet the left presumes that adoption, and a household bursting with happy children, must be antithetical to success or good parenting.<\/p>\n

But never mind the left\u2019s hate. Standing alongside President Trump with her beautiful, mixed-race, blended family, accepting one of the most prestigious nominations the nation bestows on men and women, Barrett shone. It was clear Barrett\u2019s role as a mother and an attorney, as G.K. Chest\u00aderson put it, has been \u201claborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicole Russell is a writer based in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, National \u00adReview and The Federalist. Twitter: @Russell_NM <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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