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    Sotomayor, Reverse Racist

    Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:41 PM | By Meghan O'Rourke
    Unsurprisingly, Rush Limbaugh just called Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor "reverse racists." He is referring to the controversy over Sotomayor's line, from a speech given in 2002, that she believed a Latina woman would make a better decision than a white man. Limbaugh might have ground to stand on had Sotomayor been making a blanket reference to the inherent superiority of Latina women to white men. But she wasn't. As Hanna pointed out yesterday, Sotomayor was talking about sex discrimination cases, about which there is evidence that having female judges leads to outcomes that appear to be fairer for women. She was not being a reverse racist; she was being a pragmatist, and perhaps, a wee bit of an activist in that moment... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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