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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Wise Latina Stays On Track



All of this is silly, of course. Sonia Sotomayor never intended to disparage anyone's judgment, but rather to just state the obvious, that a wise Latina is likely to spot certain biases before others do (and certainly anti-Latina, anti-Latino, or anti-woman biases), simply based on life experience, the same way that, say, Irish Catholics can more-easily spot anti-Irish biases than the general population, or the way that Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia or Sam Alito, for example, can spot anti-Italian biases. The fact that the Republicans keep hammering away at this point shows a dispiriting, misogynist Latino-hatred that will serve them poorly at the polls anywhere women or Latinos are registered to vote.

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