Judge Judy: Don't come to the greatest country and say 'Change it'
Judge Judy Sheindlin, in characteristically blunt form, argues that America's greatness is inseparable from its tolerance of inequality — and that newcomers who want to change it should find another country.
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Don't come here to redecorate. You don't like my house, stay in your own house or find a different house.
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should be equal. Well, everybody's not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical. Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some people have no breasts. They're different. Don't come into my house, which is a perfect house, and tell me looks nice from the outside, but I'm going to change it inside to make it more of what we like, a more vanilla gray everything muted colors look, that's the way we should be living today. Don't come here to redecorate. You don't like my house, stay in your own house or find a different house.
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Don't come to the greatest country in the world, the most successful country in the world, and say, 'I want to change it.'
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and this gets political, which I don't mind. I have a house and I have a home. I consider America my home. America has been good to me. I think that it's the greatest country in the world. If you don't like this country, go somewhere else. Don't come to the greatest country in the world, the most successful country in the world, and say, "I want to change it." There are other countries that offer something else that you want. Go there. Go there, but don't come into my home. America is my home. Don't come into my home and say, "I want
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Everybody's not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical. Some people are not.
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produced all of the major inroads in medicine. And we did that because we encouraged brilliance and excellent. We gave them those people a push. We They were in gifted classes, which I know public schools used to have. Now it's taboo. You say everybody should be equal. Well, everybody's not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical. Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some people have no breasts. They're different. Don't come into my house, which is a perfect house, and tell me
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We encouraged brilliance and excellence — gifted classes, which public schools used to have. Now it's taboo.
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Whether you like it or not, it's there. It produced the salt factory. It produced all of the major inroads in medicine. And we did that because we encouraged brilliance and excellent. We gave them those people a push. We They were in gifted classes, which I know public schools used to have. Now it's taboo. You say everybody should be equal. Well, everybody's not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical. Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some people have no breasts. They're different. Don't come into my
We encouraged brilliance and excellent. We gave them those people a push. We They were in excellence — gifted classes, which I know public schools used to have. Now it's taboo.
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America is my home. Don't come into my home and say, 'I want to change it.'
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greatest country in the world. If you don't like this country, go somewhere else. Don't come to the greatest country in the world, the most successful country in the world, and say, "I want to change it." There are other countries that offer something else that you want. Go there. Go there, but don't come into my home. America is my home. Don't come into my home and say, "I want to change it." May say, "I want to give more people opportunity. I want to change certain things the way certain things the way we do business, but we are a capitalist country that revered excellence, that revered
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