Scalia's gestural language

is eloquent. But he says it doesn't mean anything. OK, I didn't grow up in suburban New York for nothing. Accompanying the gesture, Tony is said to have let loose, "To my critics, I say 'Vafancull-" umm yes indeed, that is a Supreme Court justice speaking to the Press. It's TONY SCALIA, not TONY SOPRANO.

Now, I happen to know a lot of senstive, anti-racist "type" who believe that "stereotyping" of people is the worst thing a citizen of the world can do. We are all types -- to understand or identify the type is to be able to see the hardened, objective, authoritarian remnants of inculcation both in others and ourselves -- we struggle with it, we may even occasionally rise above it. But we can not destroy typology as destiny.

We must refuse the humanist pablum of "We are all different." Different from what? For Adorno, most of us have remained "types" and have not attained anything even like individualism, or at least, in the case of everyone, our particularism is shot through by typology -- the libidinally blocked nerd, the angry young man, Jewish American Princess, the Southern beauty queen, the Asian good girl -- so even as Hollywood narratives glorify everything on the level of the individual, many of us are not individuated enough to take a critical view of the sedimentation of the type within, which are like veins in marble, or swirls in your chocolate swirl in your creamy cheesecake.

Scalia is a type -- vulgar, Sicilian, crypto-Fascist, Mafioso-like, strong man, Supreme Court justice who believes himself above the law -- oh, am I being anti-Italian? Only if you think "tolerance" obviates critique! Fall into your own stereotype and you will find that that is the place where you were prepared for regression, repressive desublimation, absolute submission to authority and the use of violence (against or for yourself!)