Entry Posted June 19, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/
06/17/AR2009061702801.html Michael Kinsley on reverse discrimination, and Sonia Sotomayor’s membership of an elite women’s only club. “Sotomayor will feel right at home on the Supreme Court, where justices have made heroic efforts to pretend that affirmative action is one thing and that reverse discrimination is another.” 08:24
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FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL - Closer To The Truth (www.freepressinternational.com):
… WASHINGTON POSTSonia Sotomayor is a member of a highly unrestricted club: the club of people who deny the obvious about reverse discrimination. The club itself does not discriminate. It has members of every race, religion and sexual orientation. They include virtually all politicians and …
Hot Air » Top Picks (hotair.com):
… scrutiny,” meaning they need to have a good reason to discriminate for a court to uphold them. Aside from the Alito “quid pro quo” aspect of this, does anyone really have a problem with Sotomayor belonging to this dopeyelitistgroup? …
Subsumed ... resumed. (subsumed.blogspot.com):
… Feminists, like all liberation movements, face the question: Do we want to change society to make it more egalitarian? Or do we just want in on current arrangements? Judge Sotomayor, like others before and since, has apparently decided that her own presence among the elite is revolution …
Commentary (www.commentarymagazine.com):
… to be debating it,’ the aide said. ‘He’s always been a strong supporter of the right to collective bargaining, but as written, he would look towards improving the legislation in a way to make it more fair and equitable.’”Michael Kinsleydoesn’t think any better of Sotomayor’s excuses for belonging to an all-woman’s club than I do. Darwin would be proud: Kirsten Gillibrand continues to “ evolve ” — on guns and gay rights. Cliff May details the …
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (reason.com):
… In his Washington Post column today, Michael KinsleyskewersSonia Sotomayor for her response to the question of whether her membership in the all-female Belizean Grove violates the Judicial Code of Conduct: If Obama had nominated a man who was a member of the Bohemian Grove, that would be a big issue and probably a fatal one …
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