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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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To: ZULU

If they’re being indoctrinated, but not educated,

and our homeschoolers are being educated, and not indoctrinated, well,

the homeschoolers will be the equivalent of the “frozen time travelers” in the Idiocracy movie.

A couple of stats - homeschoolers AVERAGE in the 85th academic percentile and they are 90% likely to keep their Christian faith into their adulthood, all the way through college. And an anectdotal observation - they have big families, 5-6 kids on average.

God has a plan for these kids.


21 posted on 06/02/2009 12:55:56 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

I am glad to hear they have BIG families. The BIGGER the better.

The future of America and western civilization depends on them.


22 posted on 06/02/2009 12:57:15 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: ZULU

In our church, there are about 100 families.
Every family with kids homeschools; that’s about 90 of the families.
There are probably 500 kids in the church.


23 posted on 06/02/2009 1:02:02 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

That’s beautiful. What kind of church is it?


24 posted on 06/02/2009 1:02:54 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: ZULU

“Family Integrated”, but non-denominational.

It was great to find. It’s on some wooded land, and the boys will go play paintball and airsoft after services & meals, etc. The girls are all “little mothers”.

It’s like stepping back in time to when America/Christian values were mainstream instead of marginalized. We spend as much time there as we can.


25 posted on 06/02/2009 1:16:43 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

“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.”

Sotomayor should be held accountable for her anti-white comment, but whites do not have a monopoly on being capable of creating successful societies. Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are examples of some non-white societies that have been very successful. India is steadily getting better, but has a very long way to go. My point is that you don’t necessarily have to be white, or any other race, to be successful, that is one of the beautiful things about America. It’s ironic that those on the left like to see themselves as the enlightened ones on race, when they are actually the ones working the hardest to create racial disharmony. They pay lip service to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., yet they work against his philosophy that people should “...not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”


26 posted on 06/02/2009 1:17:10 PM PDT by Texan Tory
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To: Texan Tory

The key to a successful society, indeed, is not skin color, it’s liberty, and a culture that values liberty and personal responsibility.


27 posted on 06/02/2009 1:19:06 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: gorilla_warrior
A wise Latina would keep her racism to herself.

Which really shows a lack of judgement for a judge, particularly headed for the highest court in the land.

LaRaza will have a seat on the Supreme Court.

How quaint.

28 posted on 06/02/2009 1:40:05 PM PDT by TheThinker (America doesn't have a president. It has a usurper.)
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To: MrB

You are indeed fortunate.


29 posted on 06/02/2009 1:42:03 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

“The key to a successful society, indeed, is not skin color, it’s liberty, and a culture that values liberty and personal responsibility.”


Yeah, but for years many ‘minorities’ have been bombarded with leftists propaganda. Whether it be in their home country south of America or in the first black newspapers.

It’s becoming more and more...a ‘what’s in it for me’ cultural/racial war. The dems are holding that position and the republicans are too scared to hold a solid position of liberty.

Mere history lessons and critical thinking at a young age would eliminate the barriers we face; but it seems that front is so solidly engaged by the left, that the right has given up.


30 posted on 06/02/2009 1:47:14 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: allmost

If ever the Left reaches their goal of total minority racism/tribalism socially, politically and economically, and white men begin to see that tribalism is in full force and there is no way around it with sweet words of constitutional ideals, they will take the Left up on the game. On a level playing field of tribalism for tribalism, the Left is dead at that point.


31 posted on 06/02/2009 1:56:13 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Texan Tory
Sotomayor should be held accountable for her anti-white comment, but whites do not have a monopoly on being capable of creating successful societies. Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are examples of some non-white societies that have been very successful. India is steadily getting better, but has a very long way to go.

Most people, these days, confuse the two concepts of "culture" and "race", with some doing it deliberately. You are right that there is no reason that only white people should be able to build successful societies, but the reason that this has been mostly true is because (some) Europeans (aka white people) developed a culture that fostered progress, success, and stability more so than the other groups. Countries that you cite - Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore - only became so successful after they adopted Western ways.

There is no reason, for example, that every country in Africa that is run by black people should be a hellhole, except that the culture that those people embrace results inevitably in that condition. Likewise, in the US, black people have largely rejected the mainstream culture, which they call "white" culture, and instead have adopted the exact same sort of tribalism and thuggery that has screwed up Africa so bad. If they embraced mainstream American culture, there is no reason that the city of Detroit, for example, couldn't be a thriving metropolis. But, instead, they reject it.

It is the same with the Mexicans. If all the illegals pouring into the country were to leave their old, corrupt ways behind and embrace those American qualities that have made us so successful, they would not be the least bit of a threat to us. But they do not. Instead, they hold on to the old ways that made Mexico such a hellhole, and they employ those ways here, in the US. It is my opinion that the current gang culture that permeates our country originated with the influx of Mexicans. It is not a coincidence that the present-day gangster culture in this country got its start in LA and the surrounding areas.

The leftists who want to destroy the US know that they have to start by destroying its culture, so they do what they can to support other cultures within the US. Any criticism of the practice of other cultures in the US by Americans can be deflected by crying "racism", even though the problem isn't based on race - it's based on culture. However, this strategy has been extremely successful in replacing the successful American culture with the tribal trash cultures of Africa and Mexico/Latin America. The leftists have managed to get us to a point where an American defending his own culture on his own soil is now a "racist".
32 posted on 06/02/2009 3:14:47 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: SaraJohnson

I don’t fear a level playing field. I welcome it. I choose not to associate with those that do.


33 posted on 06/02/2009 3:48:27 PM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

Fear it...


34 posted on 06/02/2009 3:53:37 PM PDT by allmost
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To: Las Vegas Ron

And making whites feel impotent.


35 posted on 06/02/2009 5:36:01 PM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Conservatives must man up!!)
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To: PROTESTBYPROXY
And making whites feel impotent.

LOL...good one :)

36 posted on 06/02/2009 6:08:17 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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To: fr_freak; lewisglad; Texan Tory
I have read your post carefully. I feel it deserves a comment and should be considered as a rebuttal to what seems a very unpleasant bias- with a decent foundation. A little late here, but busy at the advent of a belated Canadian summer.

I have studied the Industrial Revolution and knew that an pastoral and agrarian way of life in England was lost forever. Sad in one way, but it eventually freed men and women from dawn until dusk labour. The cost was frightful. As it was in the United States when people worked a 100 hours a week. Eventually the use of electric power and proper heat and light with decent systems of cleansing of the water supply, brought about the life expectancy which is about 76/80 years of age today.

The names stand out in history. James Watt (Scotsman- steam generated power. Stephenson (railway trains) Newcommen ( pumping engine), Edison of the USA, etc. Then men like Lister (anesthetics) Gray (Anatomy) to Banting (Insulin) and so on. Many major discoveries are made by white men, the unsung heroes- unless they get the Nobel Prize.

Well enough said by me, but I have had enough of this nonsense by persons who merely batten off the system- the system established by white people.

37 posted on 06/02/2009 6:48:38 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: allmost

All things being equal and without regard to preferences, that is the best way to be.


38 posted on 06/02/2009 7:03:32 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Peter Libra
I have read your post carefully. I feel it deserves a comment and should be considered as a rebuttal to what seems a very unpleasant bias- with a decent foundation.

I agree with your comments, except that I'm not sure how they are a rebuttal to my comments. The gist of my comments were merely that white men came up with the winning formula in terms of developing the kind of culture that fostered progress and development, whereas most non-white people have not. I believe that non-white people could produce a society like the US if they embraced the same culture that white Americans traditionally have, but they don't so they either fail or succeed less. I don't dispute at all that white people, by far, have been the greatest achievers and have built the best societies in the last 1,000 years.
39 posted on 06/02/2009 9:54:52 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Disambiguator

Argh! You beat me to it.


40 posted on 06/02/2009 9:56:46 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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