…the simple test is to reverse the words “Latina Woman” and “White Man” and imagine her as a white guy speaking to an audience saying that.
If you make the reversal and conclude that a man saying that would be an unacceptable racist then so is she.
Update: Darren Hutchinson thinks that it is a PR loser, he might be right but that doesn’t address the question on the floor:
If a White candidate made the statement as indicated above would he be disqualified for even a lower court position?
Reality should always trump PR.
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[…] The bottom line is Judge Sotomayor’s statement is indefensible and the “so’s your old man” argument isn’t going to wash. Very intelligent liberal voices know this, so the path of the argument has to change. This argument for example that rebuts the “radical” charge is solid but doesn’t address the question on the floor. […]