Posted on 04/29/2014 7:54:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
The nice thing about modern America is that, if you don't like a certain form of reality, you can always make up your own version.
It helps to have a few federal judges in your corner -- such as the ones currently busy with re-imagining marriage as an institution open, on an equality basis, to same-sex as well as different-sex pairings. Then there's Justice Sonia Sotomayor, declaring that a call for no racial discrimination is tantamount to a call for racial discrimination of a very racial, and detestable, sort.
Joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sotomayor last week let loose a blast at her U. S. Supreme Court colleagues for upholding, 6-2, Michigan's right to amend the state Constitution with a prohibition against "preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting." Well, I mean -- wouldn't we call such language a green light for preferential treatment? Sotomayor and Ginsburg would.
Look, said Sotomayor's dissent: "As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society. It is this view that works harm, by perpetuating the facile notion that what makes race matter is acknowledging the simple truth that race does matter."
We don't have to slog through the tortured syntax of Sotomayor's second sentence to understand that a key reality of modern life is the need to prevail, by whatever means: never mind distortions, never mind evasions, never mind outright lies. That we get what we want appears to be the main thing.
Observe Sotomayor (seconded by Ginsburg) in action. RACE MATTERS! (Would Sotomayor herself be on the court, at the expense of far more experienced jurists, is a question likely to have circulated in her own mind, many times.) TO RULE OUT RACE IS TO RULE IT IN!
Come again? You could probably argue something of the sort at a university debate tournament. From the high court, outrageous assertions take on another character. Sotomayor missed by one vote the joy of inviting Michigan voters -- their own judgment being inferior to hers -- to take a flying leap, and with them all other Americans doubtful of the logic of assigning rewards on the basis of "race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin."
She had scornful words for those high court colleagues whose respect for the Michigan outcome exceeded hers. Their views simply were "out of touch with reality." This was to the extent that her own version of reality trumped competing accounts.
The new measure of reality in many former centers of civilization -- e.g., Washington, D.C. -- is the power of one coalition to set its notions and viewpoints (however eccentric or upside down) at such a height as to drive away opposed ideas. The people of Michigan, by Justice Sotomayor's reasoning, lack the constitutional right to assert a definition of equality she sees as defective. She'll tell 'em, by gosh, even if what she tells them has similarities to the claim that up is down, red is green, war is peace.
Yes, the late George Orwell saw it coming. It is hard to imagine Orwell expressing surprise or shock at the willingness -- the eagerness -- of a political faction to tie facts into bowlines and square knots while claiming brazenly to be doing just the opposite. A society without a moral center -- ours, for instance -- is up for grabs. The shouters have only to shout more loudly than anyone else.
The Constitution was meant, at the start of our national life, as a kind of sheet anchor keeping us generally true to the early ideals. It kind of worked until it no longer worked. "We are under a Constitution," Chief Justice Hughes acknowledged, "but the Constitution is what the judges say it is." And that was before Sonia Sotomayor had even been born.
She giggled when her college buddies suggested her kind doesn't interpret law, they twist it to conform to their worldview. Jurisprudence...ha!
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Some people are born stupid. It is sad so many of such are in government.
On a positive note, Sotomeyer just might have caused the demise of Affirmative Action.
The incompetance of a liberal is almost without measure.
The incompetance of a quota liberal is indeed without measure.
It’s an arrogance of worldview that rejects any assertions of people from the past because they “lack the experience” of the modern person.
Remember when she was being selected? Over and over again we heard of her “compelling life story”, as if that had anything to do with the objective requirements for a USSC justice.
Now Orwellian, white Latina.
“Justice Sotomayor: Saying it’s so, Makes it so”
That only works with God, dear woman.
(You are not God.)
What an arrogant and non-sensical statement. First, who would be the ultimate judge on how much was equal or fair? Would it be based upon national population? Regional? Local?
Her second sentence is rediculously ambiguous. Is she saying that acknowledging that race matters is working harm or just the opposite? Was she drinking when she wrote this tripe? If she wished to officially acknowledge that race matters, then she has just indicated that Government is racially biased and that is unconstitutional.
This broad should be impeached.
Wise latina? No. Affirmative-action degenerate who doesn’t understand law.
2 NYC judges on the SCOTUS, really? And you really expect miracles? It seems we let the N/E Liberals control the nation.
Yes, Orwell might have characterized such nonsense as doubleplusgood duckspeak. Haunting how clear was his vision.
I urge all Freepers to read/reread 1984.
great tagline
Saying it’s so makes it so..... works for me....BTW all liberal justices are no longer on the Supreme Court. I just love saying that.
One of my favorites sayings is: “You may be entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.”
Sotomayor is a disgraceful excuse for a judge, much less a Supreme Court Justice.
So we have a Supreme Court Justice who doesn’t acknowledge that race-based privileges are illegal, wrong, and unconstitutional.
Loosen up, FRiends - cut the “wise Latina Female” some slack.
How would you like to go through life fat, ugly to the bone, and knowing your presence on SCOTUS is because of Affirmative Action?
they really are going full monkeysh1t insane now.
and believing their insanity is brilliance.
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