Here is what Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court said in a 2001 lecture: “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.”
Depending on where you are on the political spectrum, that is either “racist” or “a poor choice of words”, or somewhere in between.
Let us, for a moment, suppose that Chief Justice Roberts had said this in a lecture: “I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life.” As you can see, all I have done is to flip the entities being compared.
Depending on where you are on the political spectrum, that is either “blatantly racist” or “obnoxiously male supremacist”, or somewhere in between.
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Syju on
exactly!!! For Justice Roberts, “poor choice of words” would not even be an option. Nobody would give him that kind of latitude.