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Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Misandrist?
Does this remark make you want to head for the
hills?
“I would hope that a wise Caucasian man
with the richness of his experiences would more
often than not reach better conclusion than a
Latina woman who hasn’t lived that
life.”
A male faculty member who made such a claim
would be laughed off of any college campus. But a
slightly-revised version of that remark actually
was made at the University of California at
Berkeley. This is what Supreme Court nominee Sonia
Sotomayor had to say at a Law and Cultural
Diversity lecture she gave in 2001:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with
the richness of her experiences would more often
than not reach better conclusion than a white male
who hasn’t lived that life.”
Punctuating that loopy logic, she then
opined,
“Whether born from experience or inherent
physiological or cultural differences,…our
gender and national origins may and will make a
difference in our judging.”
Physiological or cultural differences? Gender
and national origins? Let’s come right out and
proclaim it to the rooftops: Having female
genitalia and being able to roll your R’s
makes you a better judge!
Here’s another Sotomayor smoker: “I
simply do not know exactly what the difference will
be in my judging. But I accept there will be some
based on my gender and my Latina
heritage.”
That’s right, she’s admitting that
unconscious biases may taint the impartiality of
her legal opinions.
And again: “I further accept that our
experiences as women and people of color affect our
decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just
that -- it’s an aspiration because it denies
the fact that we are by our experiences making
different choices than others.”
Am I losing it or what? Isn’t she saying
because she’s a woman, impartiality is merely
an “aspiration”?
Apparently that notion was ricocheting through
her brain last year when she ruled in a reverse
discrimination case involving 19 white firemen in
New Haven. It seems that none of the Black
firefighters were qualified to be promoted.
Sotomayor’s decision? Not allow any of the
male firemen to be promoted, either.
That’s right, if Kwame and Keisha
can’t qualify for an ‘A’ in
chemistry class, then Jacob and Jennifer will have
to settle for a ‘C’ as well.
Now you can begin to understand why out of the
five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor
and later appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, three
of them have already been reversed. And if the
Supreme Court sides with the New Haven firemen, as
many believes it will, her reversal scorecard will
register a dismal four out of six.
So until the Supremes render their decision next
month, let’s just cross our fingers and hope
no three-alarm blazes break out in New Haven.
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Carey
Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness.
His work has been published frequently in the
Washington Times, Townhall.com, LewRockwell.com,
ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media
Network. You can contact him at E-Mail
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