Until recently, I was not aware that some here are "not admirers" of the late Ruth Bader Ginzburg.

[Sympthsical]

98. Except the reactions aren't allowing for rational critiques

All or nothing veneration. That's what's allowed.

I'm sorry, but no public figure in service to the people should be held up in such a way. If saying someone made a mistake is enough to trigger, some examination has to happen. To say that a human being in such a vaunted position wouldn't be capable of ego or hubris is hagiography instead of reflection.

I do not think the mistake eliminates all she did. She is too accomplished to have all that she's done overshadowed by one bad choice. However, it's not realistic to act as if that legacy did not gather some shadows by how it ended. I know a lot of women who feel that way given what followed. I, as a male, am not going to jump on them about how they're feeling. I'm certainly not going to lecture someone whose basic rights were stripped away at the end of a chain of events that included the foreseeable mistake. You didn't have to be psychic to understand the risks. You merely had to be ordinarily prescient.

People are pissed. RBG is getting maybe 1% of it. And maybe that's a rational percentage. Roe did not get overturned in a vacuum.

And saying so doesn't take away from the fact that she is one of the most accomplished American women we've ever had the good fortune to have.