Senate Confirms Biden Nom Who Suggested Microaggressions Can Kill You

The Senate on Thursday voted 51-42 to confirm Maria Araújo Kahn, President Joe Biden’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals nominee who suggested that microaggressions can “kill you.”

Sens. Senators. “implicit bias.” One of these? TrainingsParticipants at Fordham Law School were given a video. “How Microaggressions Are Like Mosquito Bites,” That is why verbal insults are often compared to deadly viruses.

“Some mosquitoes carry truly threatening diseases that can mess up your life for years,” The video says. “And other mosquitos carry strains that can even kill you.” Kahn also complained in 2020 that the First Amendment law gives bigots a free pass “verbally assaulting” These groups are often the most oppressed.

Kahn will be bringing these views to the attention of one the most powerful federal courts in the nation, which has jurisdiction over New York State. It routinely hears high-profile First Amendment cases. The Second Circuit, for instance, ruled in 2019 that Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account could not be blocked by users.

Khan is not the only Biden nominee who has made outlandish claims. Rebecca Slaughter, who Biden nominated to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in February, 2020 will see the introduction of antitrust legislation “can and should be antiracist.”

“It isn’t possible to really be actually neutral,” Slaughter CNBC Interview “nor should we be neutral in the face of systemic racism.”