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'Men in throes of Supreme panic'
Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-05-28 17:47
Article here. Excerpt:
't’s been such fun watching the right-wing white boys sputtering over the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic woman nominated by a black man!
“Our world domination’s slip, slip, slipping away,” you can almost hear them whimper. “What to do?”
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Note to those arguing that if a white man said about caucasians what Sotomayor did about Latina women judging better, he’d be finished: That’s true. But it’s a ridiculous analogy. White men - unlike women and minorities - have never endured government-sanctioned racism. Not yet, anyway.
Quick questions:
Why, when a white man wins a political seat or a court appointment, it’s all about merit? But when a nonwhite wins (Obama) or gets appointed (Sotomayor), it’s all about “identity politics” and tokenism?
How can anybody argue today against diversity in courts, Congress, whatever, considering that legal sexism and segregation continued right through the ’70s in great part because men - white men - ran everything?'
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sexist/racist author
This is the face of modern justice. Its no longer about individual rights, but preference for the communal goals of women and minorities at the expense of men. What does this say about the future of white boys? We'll see generations of self loathing white men who are shackled by political correctness.
A revolt of epic proportions is imminent.
Silly
Men's rights support has nothing to do with one's political leaning. I am by no means conservative. Men's rights are simply... just.
Process was slanted from the beginning.
If, once the appointment opportunity arose, everyone had stated the best-qualified person should be selected, a somewhat balanced list of candidates selected, then one of them--male or female--picked for confirmation, I don't think we'd be hearing this outrage at all.
That's not what happened.
Media pundits began suggesting Obama must pick a woman from nearly day 1. The now.org front page declared "One is not enough," Obama must select a woman justice. When the short list appeared, it contained a single man in a sea of women.
This was not a fair selection process. It was a sexist setup where a woman was the only allowed outcome.