Conservatives have argued that nominated Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a racist because she will favor Latinos over white men in future court decisions. I hate to say this, but they're right.
For the moment, let's ignore the impeccable logic suggesting that since Judge Sotomayor is Latina, she would be unable to fairly determine cases involving Latinos because she would obviously privilege them in her decisions. The fact is that this kind of racial and religious privilege has been a characteristic of the court for years.
In the case of Streisand V. To Suck Dick, the two Jewish justices, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, sided with Barbra Streisand, while the gentiles chose To Suck Dick.
It gets worse. Clarence Thomas, the inherited leader of the civil rights movement, has always sided with black interests in the stead of white ones. He is in favor of affirmative action, reparations, and even enslaving white people (as retribution for 400 years of slavery). It's a good thing conservatives brought up these valid points when Thomas was nominated.
And let us not forget the 200 plus years of Supreme Court Justices who happen to be white men ruling in the interest of white men who happened to be white men. That's why conservatives are correct in arguing that future Justice Sotomayor, and for that matter all minority hopefuls, should be disqualified from sitting on the Supreme Court.
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