Re: Sotomayor for SCOTUS and Racial Discrimination


"Bill T" <wctom1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 5/27/2009 20:33, Clave wrote:

Your support for her is admirable then.

Your objection to attention being paid to her background has no basis in
rationality is all, and it quite resembles whining. If you'd rather call
it
something else, that's fine with me.

I have pointed out that her "impoverished" childhood is a red herring.

Only if undue attention is being paid to it, which you've provided no reason
to believe.


It is not whining.

If you say so.


The mechanics of the media reporting on what people are interested in
aren't
difficult to understand, and frankly, only a vanishing few are saying
that
her background is the *only* rationale for her appointment.

True. On the other hand, most media reports have commented on her being
raised as a not-rich kid in the Bronx.

Again, so fucking what? It happens to be true.


On the contrary -- the vast majority of reports I've read and heard about
her appointment have focused on her strong intellect, academic and career
success, and mastery of law.

And also how her "poor" background somehow connects her to the masses.
Look, if you are in Princeton at age 18, followed by Yale Law, you are not
part of the elite.

Now you're making *** up again. Are you ever going to post a quote of
anyone calling her a member of the dispossessed?

I'm beginning to think you haven't been arguing in good faith at all here,
Bill.


Seems as if it's exclusively people on the right who are focusing on her
early history and trying to make it seem as though everyone's talking
about
that to the complete exclusion of the rest of her life and career.

Which is, of course, the purest GOPosaur-manufactured horse***.

I sympathize with your political viewpoints, but you seem to be mostly
engaging in name-calling rather than any cogent arguments.

Wow.

My guess is that the light from the nearest cogent argument won't hit you
for another six months.

Shiny side out, Bill.

Jim


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