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Title: America's Wise Latina Lady
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URL Source: http://www.takimag.com/article/americas_wise_latina_lady/
Published: May 28, 2009
Author: Richard Spencer
Post Date: 2009-05-28 19:03:45 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 149
Comments: 12
Once upon a time, there were The Founders. Though tragically trapped in their slave holding and lack of gender and ethnic diversity, these wise fellows envisioned that on the American continent might arise a new nation that would evolve into exactly what we have today. And in order to make this dream a reality, they emitted a pool of timeless and amorphous “values”—values that have now been actualized as a poor Latina girl from the South Bronx who has been appointed to the Supreme Court. I’ve often thought that most every journalist in Washington has this kind of PBS version of history swirling around in his head. And this morning, it must have been quite exciting for them all as they heard their fantasy recounted to them in detail by that proverbial Poor-Latina-Girl-From-The-South-Bronx-Who-Made-It-All-The-Way-To-The-Supreme Court—and she even did it with one of those bland, PBS voices you’d expect to hear narrating the latest installment of The American Experience. To be fair, I was rather surprised to read a hit piece on Sotomayor, in The New Republic no less (!?!), in which she’s described by a former colleague as “not that smart and kind of a bully.” This about someone who graduated Summa Cum Laude! Affirmative Action Admissions can get you into Princeton (just ask the First Lady), but it doesn’t guarantee that you make it to the top of the grading scale (just ask the First Lady). So, I suspect that Sotomayor is at the very least very clever and tenacious. In the American Left/Right paradigm, conservatives talk about “strict constructionist” vs. “judicial activists” when it comes to SCOTUS nominees. But their overriding concern is Roe, Roe, Roe (with perhaps terrorists detainee decisions now playing a minor role.) And this time ‘round, the abortion issue might be all the more contentious since, as Obama mentioned in his introduction of his nominee, Sotomayor went to Catholic school and, according to her Wiki page, is a practicing Roman Catholic (?). But the nomination is, for me at least, even more in-ter-esting in terms of race issues. Not only did Sotomayor make it clear that she’d be representin’ the South Bronx (you go, girl!), she also seems to have internalized many of the PC memes of academic Critical Race Theory: I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life. Though we might want to ponder just what “better” might entail, it’s clear that ol’ Sonia plans to be the “Social Justice Justice,” and if confirmed, she’d be constantly yammering about how she’s the dog-gone only one who could possibly understand the real “context” of this or that case that comes before the court. Furthermore, I don’t think it’s any coincidence that though Sotomayor hasn’t offered any major opinions on abortion in her career, she was actually one of the seven justices who this past month opined against Frank Ricci et al. in the recent “reverse discrimination” case, in which Ricci and 16 other firefighters sued the city of New Haven after it discarded some standardized test scores that didn’t adhere to America’s a priori notion of the proper racial distribution of academic outcomes. Obama has given us a glimpse of his “post-racial America.” (Sotomayor’s decision on Ricci also reveals one of those funny things about most Ivy League, Perfect Résumé-type people (which Steven Pinker talked about in The Blank Slate and which Steve Sailer has discussed numerous times): The Great Test Takers are all obsessed with “getting in” to the Big Universities, mostly for what it reveals to the world about their SAT and LSAT scores. But when it comes to other people, especially non-White and non-Asian other people, they take it as a matter of doctrine that scores on intelligence tests are completely irrelevant and should be discarded at judicial or legislative whim, and if you talk about them at all, that probably means you’re racist.) Will the Religious Right, and other groups who insist that we must always rally behind Republicans because “it’s about the judges,” go after Sotomayor on these “race” issues? My sense is that they will not. But I’d love to be pleasantly surprised.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
That one idiotic, bigoted statement should be plenty of reason to disqualify her and remove her from the job she has now. And it should show people what Obama is too, the ones who didn't already know what he was.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I'm not to versed in Spanish but isn't that redundant? Wouldn't it be Hispanic lady or Latina?
Sotomayor, another in a long lineage of black robed criminals.
Yes. A Latina is automagically a woman. A Latino is a man.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Every good "conservative" knows that everything about the 60s was bad EXCEPT for judges repealing segregation laws and laws against miscegenation.
Just substitute the word "entropy" wherever liberals write "diversity" and everything makes sense.
Except for putas.
Just substitute the word "entropy" wherever liberals write "diversity" and everything makes sense.
Shame on you.
Shame on you. Then wouldn't I be a "puto"?
Someone sent me something about the injustices of the Portuguese language and the difference it made between men and women. It is hilarious, here is an example (the translation is not professional but from a website called PROMT--usually close enough unless it has to be an exact translation). Garoto de rua ..........menino pobre, que vive na rua, um coitado_____Street boy.......... poor boy, who lives in the street, a poor one. Garota de rua ..........puta_____Garota de rua......whore. (The translator doesn't translate puta correctly but I knew what it meant). I don't know how many examples there were of things like that. An "adventurer" in Portuguese is "aventureiro" (if it is a man) and it gives a very nice definition for him. But an "aventureira" (a woman adventurer) is a puta. LOL.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. You're just a tease.
I guess I'm screwed either way.
I guess most of us are in one way or another.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Lord Acton
#2. To: Ada, James Deffenbach, Original_Intent, lodwick (#0)
(Edited)
Latina Lady
A little known fact.... The first testicular guard "Jock strap & Cup" was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
#3. To: Ada (#0)
#4. To: farmfriend (#2)
I'm not to versed in Spanish but isn't that redundant?
Lord Acton
#5. To: Ada (#0)
But their overriding concern is Roe, Roe, Roe
#6. To: farmfriend (#2)
I'm not to versed in Spanish but isn't that redundant?
#7. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#6)
Except for putas.
A little known fact.... The first testicular guard "Jock strap & Cup" was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
#8. To: farmfriend (#7)
Except for putas.
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs
...that's Turtle Island.
#9. To: farmfriend (#7)
Lord Acton
#10. To: Turtle (#8)
Then wouldn't I be a "puto"?
A little known fact.... The first testicular guard "Jock strap & Cup" was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
#11. To: James Deffenbach (#9)
But an "aventureira" (a woman adventurer) is a puta. LOL.
A little known fact.... The first testicular guard "Jock strap & Cup" was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
#12. To: farmfriend (#11)
I guess I'm screwed either way.
Lord Acton
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