Gingrich: Sotomayor ‘Racist,’ Should Withdraw Nomination »
Posted By TimALoftis 7 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsRush Limbaugh isn't the only one calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Newt Gingrich is, too — and he's demanding that Obama's pick to the Supreme Court withdraw her nomination.
On Twitter, Gingrich pointed to a line in Sotomayor's 2001 speech to a Hispanic group in Berkeley that has drawn fire from some conservatives.
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life," Sotomayor said in that speech, describing how life experience can inform judicial opinions.
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TimALoftis7 months, 1 week ago
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The same people who are calling Judge Sotomayor a racist are among the same group who feel that Obama's choice was nothing more than a 'Affirmative Action' pick. To level that charge on this very qualified nominee sounds pretty racist to me.
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slate7 months, 1 week ago
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Can't you guys on the left just admit that one of your own can say something that sounds racist? I men honestly, how would you have reacted if someone from the right said something similar to what this lady said just by just changing the race of the comment?
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Don't you think "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." sounds a tad racist? You can't be honest about racism if you aren't willing to call it, no matter which poilitcal party or race does it.
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jordan117 months, 1 week ago
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antibrainwasher7 months, 1 week ago
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I'm not normally a sadist, but I have to admit I enjoy the daily suffering and agony and slow torturous death of the party of Cons, the filthy lying sack of festering liquid crap that is the GOP. Watching Goebbles Beck, Oxy Cottonballs, Newt, Rove, Chickenhawk Mass Murderer Cheney, Tony Perkins and his band of evangelical closet homosexuals, all of them, a pack of ignorant thugs crusaders for the baby jesus and the Richest, are killing off what is left after anyone capable of independent thought pulled out of the repug party.
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What a discusting group of bloviating atavistic lizard brained lockstepping white supremacists. -
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Beau78907 months, 1 week ago
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Gingrich is smart enough to know better. This is another instance of his laying the groundwork for his presidential campaign in 2012.
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FTA:
On Wednesday, Gingrich tweeted: "Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman.' new racism is no better than old racism."
Gingrich knows the context of Sotomayor's statement, which was discussing a long-debated idea that one's background necessarily influences one's judgment.
Here's the full quote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15ju...
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, 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.
Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.
In the comment Newt is trying to spin, Sotomayor clearly says she would hope that a wise Latina woman would more often reach a better conclusion than a white male.
And in her next few sentences, she states that she believes "that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group."
This "uproar" about the Latina woman/white male comment is pure politicking, pure spin.-
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skyking2p7 months, 1 week ago
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Thanks Beau7890 for letting us see the whole quote. This is a discussion about how different people will bring there life experience to there judgement on the bench. This seem like common sense to me. That is what democracy is all about.
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JamesMarcus7 months, 1 week ago
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The hilarity never ends. In the quote, Sotomayor is basically arguing that who you are will affect your perceptions of the law. This is a no-brainer. She also notes that many judges have risen above the limitations of their own backgrounds. All we needed was for irrelevant Newt to wade in (via Twitter!) and demand that she withdraw.
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TimALoftis7 months, 1 week ago
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A number of conservative moderates were interviewed by the various news networks over the last couple of days...a great deal of concern and almost down right anger at Limbaugh and others over this matter. One urged the Republicans in the Senate to give Judge Sotomoyar their unanimous support and move on.
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Newenglander7 months, 1 week ago
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I think most rational people can see what old Newt is up to and as usual it's no good.Gingrich is as corrupt and morally vacant as they get. Limpballs on the other hand is an over inflated gas bag who appeals to people with poor 8th grade educations and controlling interest in Anheuser Busch.
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rimbaud7 months, 1 week ago
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Limbaugh used to be entertaining before he started to believe the intentionally inflammatory views he expressed to anger people into calling-in to his show to "debate" him. The same is true of O'Reilly. They have turned into blowhards.
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CRYMTYPHON7 months, 1 week ago
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Beau, above, provides the text from which Gingrich
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extracts his quote.
It is clear that Sotomayor is not making a racist comment.
She brags a Latina has more opportunity to become wise.
When she is as wise as we are she will know better.
And there is nothing in her life or work that implies she is racist.
So?
What wins a fight, - the whole truth, or a sound-bite?
What matters, - character, - or chatter?
"Character matters", as Gingrich whispered to his mistress during the impeachment.
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