Pardon, Pat: Your White Sheet is Showing
Today is Monday, 1 June 2009.
In a column published in today’s Tulsa World, “President reveals his idea of justice”, Patrick Buchanan writes:
“Speaking at Berkeley in 2001, [U.S. Supreme Court nominee] Sonia [Sotomayor] told her audience, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion (as a judge) than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Imagine if Sam Alito [note he’s not referred to as Sam; Pat practices the Old Southern custom of referring to racial inferiors by first names only, as in the paragraph above] had said at Bob Jones University, "I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his life experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Hispanic woman, who hasn't lived that life."
Alito would have been toast. No explanation, no apology would have spared him. He would have been branded for life a white bigot.”
Permit me to imagine an alternative, genuinely Alito-esque response.
Imagine if Sam Alito had said at Bob Jones University, that longtime South Carolina bastion of white supremacist racism, “I would hope that a wise white male, knowing that he is racially and gender-genetically superior to mere women and Hispanics, with the richness of the life of relative privilege that most white males enjoy over women and persons of color, would more often than not reach a better conclusion (that is, one aiming to maintain and extend that richness of life) than a Hispanic woman, who hasn’t lived that life of racial and gender precedence.”
Buchanan slyly avoids the fact that the USA/USE is a society still relentlessly and majorly tainted by white racism, and that Sotomayor’s point is that someone who has been the victim of racism is more likely to be more aware and morally sensitive to racism than a white male, who, like it or not, and regardless of personal opposition to racism, and that includes yours truly, is inevitably a beneficiary of society’s larger coddling of white males.
Buchanan closely resembles the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, whose publications combined justifications of anti-Semitism and white supremacy with soft-core pornography.
In a column published in today’s Tulsa World, “President reveals his idea of justice”, Patrick Buchanan writes:
“Speaking at Berkeley in 2001, [U.S. Supreme Court nominee] Sonia [Sotomayor] told her audience, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion (as a judge) than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Imagine if Sam Alito [note he’s not referred to as Sam; Pat practices the Old Southern custom of referring to racial inferiors by first names only, as in the paragraph above] had said at Bob Jones University, "I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his life experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Hispanic woman, who hasn't lived that life."
Alito would have been toast. No explanation, no apology would have spared him. He would have been branded for life a white bigot.”
Permit me to imagine an alternative, genuinely Alito-esque response.
Imagine if Sam Alito had said at Bob Jones University, that longtime South Carolina bastion of white supremacist racism, “I would hope that a wise white male, knowing that he is racially and gender-genetically superior to mere women and Hispanics, with the richness of the life of relative privilege that most white males enjoy over women and persons of color, would more often than not reach a better conclusion (that is, one aiming to maintain and extend that richness of life) than a Hispanic woman, who hasn’t lived that life of racial and gender precedence.”
Buchanan slyly avoids the fact that the USA/USE is a society still relentlessly and majorly tainted by white racism, and that Sotomayor’s point is that someone who has been the victim of racism is more likely to be more aware and morally sensitive to racism than a white male, who, like it or not, and regardless of personal opposition to racism, and that includes yours truly, is inevitably a beneficiary of society’s larger coddling of white males.
Buchanan closely resembles the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, whose publications combined justifications of anti-Semitism and white supremacy with soft-core pornography.
posted by HH at 1:39 PM
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