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Sotomayor’s demeaning views on race
nypost ^ | April 23, 2014 | Mike Gonzalez

Posted on 04/08/2017 7:41:53 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling that Michigan voters had the right to ban racial preferences in university admissions didn’t sit well with the court’s self-described “Wise Latina,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Her 58-page-long dissent made clear that she’ll be the last line of defense for affirmative-action policies at the highest court in the land.

But a look at the dissent as well as her own history, makes clear that the lady doth protest too much. Immigrants and their children simply have no claim on affirmative action — if anyone does. To the contrary, these policies hurt their intended beneficiaries.

The court didn’t rule on the merits of affirmative action, but on whether voters can opt to ban its use in public universities. Sotomayor tried to do several things as she fought a rear-guard battle.

She sought to equate affirmative action with voting rights, which didn’t fly. More interestingly, she also vainly tried to read this policy into the Constitution, the better to save it from future challenges.

The Constitution, she wrote, “guarantees that the majority may not win by stacking the political process against minority groups permanently, forcing the minority alone to surmount unique obstacles in pursuit of its goals — here, educational diversity that cannot reasonably be accomplished through race-neutral measures.”

In other words, one of the highest Hispanics in the land argues that, without preference policies, minorities can’t hope to reach a proportionate participation in universities.

Can you imagine what reading this opinion would do to a young Puerto Rican or Mexican-American girl full of hopes about her own abilities? As Linda Chavez once put it, “Ultimately, entitlements based on their status as ‘victims’ rob Hispanics of real power.”

It’s heartening that by a 6-2 majority, the high court didn’t let such nonsense go unchallenged by the voters.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: admissions; affirmativeaction; college; hispanics; preferences; sotomayor; wiselatina
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To: MarvinStinson

Leftists just can’t decide who is the bigger victim.


21 posted on 04/08/2017 8:08:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: vette6387

Hope you’re right.


22 posted on 04/08/2017 8:09:42 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Dr. Thomas Sowell had often written about studies that have shown that Blacks admitted to competitive colleges, because of affirmative action, often flunk out because they can’t keep up with the competition. They would have been much better served if they had gone to a second-tier college, where they could have graduated. A recent book, entitled “Mismatch” also addresses this subject. So the answer is “Yes”, there have been studies done on this subject that show that Blacks (and Latinos) are often HURT by affirmative action in college admissions policies.


23 posted on 04/08/2017 8:11:31 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: MarvinStinson
What’s wrong with the neck of the one in the foreground?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, old, decrepit, and failing in every possible sense of the word. She's determined, apparently, to stay alive until another liberal is elected president. Hard to tell whether she IS actually alive, as she's always slumped over. Perhaps drooling. Perhaps not.

24 posted on 04/08/2017 8:12:08 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: MarvinStinson

This means two liberal justices joined this ruling.


25 posted on 04/08/2017 8:15:00 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: MarvinStinson

Why post under NEWS-—it happened over 2 years ago?

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26 posted on 04/08/2017 8:15:42 PM PDT by Mears
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To: MarvinStinson

Liberals badly wanted more and more of this far left making it up as you go. Trump, when done, will have at MINIMUM as 6-3 conservative majority, entirely possibly 7-2. It seems so simple: Interpret the laws and the constitution according to the law or the constitution. If you don’t like the law, change the law. If you don’t like the constitution, change the constitution. It’s not nor was it ever meant to be judge’s being creative and manufacturing laws. It’s not about making sure that one side or the other has “enough” victories.

Sotomayor, Kagan, Breyer and Ginsburg the Living Corpse think that it’s their job to guarantee a certain number of wins, and that’s sad and maddening at the same time.


27 posted on 04/08/2017 8:18:32 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: MarvinStinson

It’s interesting that in the New York Post article, Sotomayor is quoted as saying that her grades were NOT equal to her classmates at Princeton or Yale. In other words, she was admitted into those schools because of affirmative action. And she is on SCOTUS only because of affirmative action and by being nominated by an affirmative action President. Discrimination allows incompetents to rise to positions of power that they do not deserve (eg. Obama & Sotomayor).


28 posted on 04/08/2017 8:37:10 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: MarvinStinson

she’s an outright racist...if you remember when she was on the lower court she mocked the New Haven firefighters case, which was ruled in favor of the firefighters on SCOTUS as she was being nominated...


29 posted on 04/08/2017 8:38:54 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: MarvinStinson

Total potted racist plant aka DemocRAT ...


30 posted on 04/08/2017 8:45:48 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Taglines now subject to management approval)
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To: MarvinStinson

She’s a knucklehead and nowhere near being qualified to be on the SCOTUS.


31 posted on 04/08/2017 8:59:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Snowflakes! You can't impeach the President of the United States because he makes you feel sad.)
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To: IWontSubmit

The Faces-of-Evil.

Beauty may be only skin-deep; but Ugly goes all the way to their dark souls.


32 posted on 04/08/2017 9:05:35 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Stay safe out there. The< Haters (TM) are dangerous. Very dangerous.)
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To: MarvinStinson

We’ll see if she still thinks that way when/if Whites become the minority.


33 posted on 04/08/2017 9:13:07 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: MarvinStinson
What’s wrong with the neck of the one in the forground?

She's dead.

34 posted on 04/08/2017 9:18:06 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: MarvinStinson
Can you imagine what reading this opinion would do to a young Puerto Rican or Mexican-American girl full of hopes about her own abilities?

Yes. First, she would start with the premise that preferential treatment is owed to her because of white privilege, then she would game the system for all it's worth.

35 posted on 04/08/2017 9:28:09 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Has anyone ever followed up on Affirmative Action college applicants that are given preference, to see if they actually complete college? Do they end up with successful careers?


36 posted on 04/08/2017 9:30:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: MarvinStinson

Our Constitution guarantees Equal Rights under the Law.

It does not guarantee Special Rights under the Law unless a Wise Latina with mush for brains thinks it does.


37 posted on 04/08/2017 9:34:53 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: glasseye

38 posted on 04/08/2017 9:45:52 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: MarvinStinson

58 page dissent?

lol

I bet a capable mind with a valid dissent could put it in 7 pages or less.

58 page? a Page and a half of one off legal decisions and 56.5 pages of liberal screed is probably what she wrote.


39 posted on 04/08/2017 10:29:33 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: MarvinStinson

Sorry. Repudiated. In a hurry. Reudiated is when a retarded person says or writes it, like me.


40 posted on 04/08/2017 10:58:39 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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