openleft.com - 5/28/2009
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Conservatives are crying "identity politics" over Sotomayor's nomination, as they would have if Obama had nominated anyone except a white male. The lack of self-awareness in these charges is pretty extreme, but also not surprising. Here are just some examples of conservative identity politics:
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nationaljournal.com - 5/22/2009
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"I would hope that a wise Latina woman
with the richness of her experiences would more often...
than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn't lived that life." -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and ...
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National Journal Magazine - Identity Politics And Sotomayor
washingtonpost.com - 5/27/2009
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Responding to early 19th-century rumors that they drank
excessively, the Supreme Court justices decided to drink nothing...
on conference days -- unless it was raining. At the next conference, Chief Justice John Marshall asked Joseph Story to scan the ...
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Identity Justice: Obama's Conventional Choice
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 5/28/2009
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The attacks on Sonia Sotomayor are getting crazier
by the minute. The pronunciation of her name is...
unnatural. Her fondness for Puerto Rican cuisine - sorry, her "claimed" fondness (you never know) - may cloud her impartiality. She doesn't have enough ...
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A note on identity politics
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Identity politics is harmful to democracy, unless you're a white male
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... short. By contrast, on Canada's Supreme Court, 7 of the 80 justices (8.7%) have been women. Of the current court, 4 of the 9 are women, including Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, who has presided over the court since January 2000. So if Sotomayor gets approved, the United States will have one fewer woman in the history of the court as Canada has in its current court. Watching Gingrich, Limbaugh and the other social Luddites freak out isn't just about being a white male. It's about the loss of identity -- they grew up sheltered in an era where role models in a wide range of ...
Identity politics is harmful to democracy, unless you're a white male
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... Watching Gingrich, Limbaugh and the other social Luddites freak out isn't just about being a white male. It's about the loss of identity -- they grew up sheltered in an era where role models in a wide range of fields were white males, just like them. ...
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