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The Sonia Syndrome: Why White Men Are Doomed
The Daily Beast ^ | 6.2.09

Posted on 06/02/2009 11:54:46 AM PDT by lewisglad

Quite soon, likely this week, Sonia Sotomayor will arrive on Capitol Hill, where she will be greeted by a gaggle of lawmakers. Nearly all of them will be white. Most will be men.

It must be said: These guys are doomed. All of these dark-suited white male politicians, with their crisp shirts and red coordinated ties, will be embarrassingly lacking the key appendage required in American politics today. Through elections and re-elections, grueling fundraising dinners and various travails required for elevation to the highest offices in the land, they thought they had it all! And until now, darn it, they did. They had what was needed to make it in America.

But now, it’s not enough. These politicians are missing…an identity. As in “identity politics.”

OK, so here’s the issue, or so it seems based on the fevered response to a few sentences from Judge Sotomayor: If you happen to be a 54-year-old Hispanic woman from the Bronx, and if you happened to notice, somehow, that you are a 54-year-old Hispanic woman from the Bronx…and then if you imply, let’s say in an address to an academic audience, “Hey! I’m thinking I’m a 54-year-old Hispanic woman from the Bronx and that’s going to have something to do with how I look at the world…and oh, by the way, I’m thinking that may even give me a better perspective on the tapestry of global human experience than a rich white guy from Greenwich, Connecticut….”

Well, you have just entered the world of identity politics.

There appears, we’ll understate, to be concern among some conservatives—and I do emphasize some, because there’s a whole group of smart conservatives —that Sonia Sotomayor’s so-called identity politics have compromised her legal judgments, and would continue to do so on the Supreme Court.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: discrimination; radicalfeminists; whitemales
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1 posted on 06/02/2009 11:54:46 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: lewisglad

I feel quite fine thank you. No excuses. The main thing.


2 posted on 06/02/2009 11:58:48 AM PDT by allmost
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To: lewisglad
Well, that and her membership in La Raza - I mean, all sorts of KKK members might tell you they're not racist, only the organization is, but do you believe them?

Those despised white guys the author can't seem to conceal his contempt for - they do have an identity. It's been suppressed since HUAC took on the KKK to the point at which a lot of otherwise intelligent people - and there are some intelligent liberals, I'm sure - think it doesn't exist as long as they don't acknowledge it. Careful with that one, friends. If you really do want to Balkanize American politics with identity, you might want to take a look at Balkan history first.

3 posted on 06/02/2009 11:59:51 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: lewisglad

Feh, this whole administration is about payback


4 posted on 06/02/2009 12:00:06 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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To: lewisglad

” will be embarrassingly lacking the key appendage required in American politics today”

Testacles?


5 posted on 06/02/2009 12:01:56 PM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: lewisglad

How long will it take for ...ahem.... others to destroy the Western Civilization that white men built, largely it should be added, in an environment of Christianity.


6 posted on 06/02/2009 12:02:14 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: lewisglad

The consequences of this election can be summed up in what I heard about the last election altercation that a white man, former Civil Rights proponent and activist, had with one of the three black thugs at the Philadelphia polling place (conveniently a ‘guild’ house) dressed in black military garb while brandishing billy clubs: “White man you are about to be ruled by a the black man”. For Ms. Sotowhatever, the sentiment is the same, only the particular race has changed.


7 posted on 06/02/2009 12:04:08 PM PDT by Gaffer
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I think when we start referring to Supreme Court nominees by only their first names in headlines, we run the risk of appointing Madonna and we're all doomed.
8 posted on 06/02/2009 12:08:01 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: EyeGuy

Guess you have seen the new and revised histories that are being taught to our children.

If you thought the “New Math” was stupid - just check that stuff out.


9 posted on 06/02/2009 12:08:51 PM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: lewisglad

I believe John Galt was White and the John Galts of America still are.


10 posted on 06/02/2009 12:11:00 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Gaffer

You used the polite language, and I appreciate it. The Panthers said ‘You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker’ while brandishing billy clubs (and the Obama appointee let them off the hook)


11 posted on 06/02/2009 12:11:33 PM PDT by lewisglad
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To: EyeGuy

Two sides of the same argument:

The most successful, free-est, and highest standard of living societies were made by WHITE MEN.

By comparison, name a “brown” society that even comes close, ever, throughout history.


12 posted on 06/02/2009 12:12:18 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: ZULU

homeschooling


13 posted on 06/02/2009 12:12:53 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: lewisglad

A wise Latina would keep her racism to herself. But what we have here is a rather coarse and common bigot. What Satomayor shares with SkinnyHitler and the Arkansas Skirtchaser is revealing: the lack of a father, who might have taught her some manners. This is the Ivy League Trailer Trash brigade. They came from nothing, nurtured their class envy at marxist indoctrination centers, and learned to use the government to give them the power and wealth they couldn’t achieve legitimately. You can take the trash out of the trailer, but you can’t take the trailer out of the trash.


14 posted on 06/02/2009 12:22:14 PM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Metrosexual hairless RINOs for bipartisan-ness)
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To: lewisglad

These two white guys are doomed (doomed).

15 posted on 06/02/2009 12:22:49 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Gaffer

>...dressed in black military garb while brandishing billy clubs: “White man you are about to be ruled by a the black man”

The story would have been much better if it hand ended with “and then he pulled out his .357 revolver and killed the people who were obviously threatening him.”

But then again, it’s not “politically correct” to stand up for yourself, and your own rights, such as the right to self-defense, the right to property, the right to _equal treatment_ under the law.


16 posted on 06/02/2009 12:24:03 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: ZULU

“Guess you have seen the new and revised histories that are being taught to our children.”

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You mean the “history” where Rosa Parks gets 10 times the coverage of George Washington? Yeah I’ve seen it. And, if you ask my kids, they will tell you that I have declared open warfare upon it.


17 posted on 06/02/2009 12:28:08 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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“By comparison, name a “brown” society that even comes close, ever, throughout history.”

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Well historical scholars like Neil Young will tell you that the white man ruined the paradise on Earth of the Mayan Civilization. You know, the one where they routinely performed human sacrifices of their young to appease their pagan Gods, and killed the losing team in a sports competition.


18 posted on 06/02/2009 12:31:34 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: EyeGuy

FOX did a special on the crap kids are getting in their history books lately. It was most revealing. They even gave names and adresses of the CEOs of the companies putting this garbage out.


19 posted on 06/02/2009 12:49:36 PM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: MrB

Or private school. The rest are contaminated.

But putting YOUR kid in a decent school helps only a little bit.

The politicians, lawyers, journalists and educators of tomorrow are being created in these hot-pots of political correctness by the leftists and Americahaters who teach in them today.

Its like a disease, contaminating the young.


20 posted on 06/02/2009 12:51:50 PM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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