Comments on: Gingrich Calls On Sotomayor To Withdraw Because She’s A ‘Latina Woman Racist’

By: Heynow

Heynow — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:50:48 +0000

The GOP can be summed up in one quote from movie “Midnight express”. “Does the bad machine know its a bad machine”.

By: Cats r Flyfishn

Cats r Flyfishn — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:24:52 +0000

With that statement, Gingrich can forget the female votes and the Latino votes if he chooses to run for president in 2012. I just love the way the Repubs keep opening their mouths spilling out the truth about who they really are… hateful, greedy racists.

By: Wang111

Wang111 — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:30:33 +0000

Sonia Sotomayor is not a racist.

Sonia Sotomayor will benefit the U.S. Supreme Court immensely.

Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

By: Lora

Lora — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:23:59 +0000

Gingrich, the former college professor, obviously is unaware that to say “Latina woman” is redundant. A Latina is a woman, Congressman Serial Adulterer/Hypocrite.

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:33:00 +0000

Gingrich Calls On Sotomayor To Withdraw Because She’s A ‘Latina Woman’

Fixed.

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By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:29:18 +0000

ConservativeForProgress Says:

Getting over a double standard is not Progress. I’m looking a step beyond you to a day where there are no double standards.

No you’re not.

Pretending there are no existing double standards is not progress. Accusing people who are trying to help us move beyond racism of being racists is not progress. Accusing people who even point out that racism exists of being racists is not progress.

By: Angry McAngus

Angry McAngus — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:24:06 +0000

Watch the neoConfederates, hoopin and hollerin and shit about a “racist” woman of color! Oh, Newt! The indignation! Irony, much?

By: dasm

dasm — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:25:53 +0000

Gingrich- the epitome of white male sexist. He’s a pig, with no respect for women or immigrants whatsoever. Please, someone hit him in the face with questions such as– You hate her because she’s Latina? Because she’s a woman? Because you, as a privileged white male, find any other point of view- ‘racist’? Because you have always degraded women, & you’re afraid she might respect women?
Don’t let this ignorant, sexist, hateful jerk get away with this crap.

By: wiley

wiley — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:17:39 +0000

Eat sh*t, Newt.

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:33:00 +0000

ConservativeForProgress Says:

Getting over a double standard is not Progress. I’m looking a step beyond you to a day where there are no double standards. Can you see that far?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You cant get to the ONE without going through the other cant you see THAT? There have been and still are lingering effects to racial discrimination. Just PRETENDING that all racism and all its effects have disappeared is not dealing with reality. That day will hopefully come but it is not here yet and pretending it is will only FURTHER the racial disparities.

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:28:59 +0000

ConservativeForProgress Says:

82. ED: You missed the point. Perhaps I wasn’t clear. My point wasn’t that she is or isn’t a racist. My points were: 1. That it is fair to ask her about this and give her a chance to explain it; and 2. If a white man had made a similar comment, it would be labeled racist.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

No I didnt miss it you are just WRONG. 1 she doesnt need to make any further explanations since in context it explains itself and isnt even controversial. 2. No he wouldnt not if he were making the argument that HIS specific experiences made him IN GENERAL a better judge of cases having to do with HIS SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES. It would have to be in a completely different context because being the MAJORITY, in the group WITH the power is not the same as being the one OUT of power. There can be no reasonable argument it IS the same thing.

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:11:10 +0000

ConservativeForProgress

Stop it. STop playing the dunce. Take the entire quote IN CONTEXT the fact she was specifically talking about race and gender cases the fact she AKNOWLEDGED white men CAN AND HAVE when she said THIS

I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.

All this has been explained so either stop LYING or stop playing dumb. There isnt any possibility this can be spun as racist unless you are willing to be dishonest

By: LizCoro

LizCoro — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:50:05 +0000

You wanna talk racism, twitterboy . .

Wonder what Newt the unemployed, blogging serial marrier thinks of Liberty University’s policy of NO interracial dating. Looks like racism in the name of Jesus! Wonder what Jesus thinks about Liberty’s racism, hmmmmm . .

By: chiroptera toasterhead

chiroptera toasterhead — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:41:18 +0000

ConservativeForProgress Says:

“I hope that a wise White man with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life.”

May 27th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
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It depends on the context. However, that statement coming from a white male has a much more racially-insensitive overtone than it does coming from a woman or a person of color. That’s just the way it is.

Yeah, it’s a double standard. We live in a country built on double-standards. Get over it.

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:40:42 +0000

The Dogfather Says:

What about an African-American male sexual harasser — would he be forced to withdraw?

Well, he’d be a racist for being African-American, obviously. But he also keeps the uppity broads in their place, so it would average out.

By: dottoreholliday

dottoreholliday — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:35:10 +0000

It warms the cockles of our hearts to see the GOP Southern Strategy proved. As Gingrich and the other Southern GOP are taking their sheets and hoods out of the trunk and to the cleaners for their upcoming night ride.

However, you would expect Gingrich, the history teacher, to know that Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate Lieutenant General, while elected as the Grand Wizard in 1867, repudiated his allegiance with and denied that he formed the Klan.

By: pete

pete — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:28:48 +0000

I’ll take that bet, CFP. I predict that she will be confirmed with unanimous GOP dissent.

By: jaimymoore

jaimymoore — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:28:17 +0000

It is the measure of Republican weakness that all they can do is lie about what Sotomayor said.

No wonder they can’t govern worth a damn.

By: jaimymoore

jaimymoore — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:27:20 +0000

Of course, she also said this:

I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.

But I’m sure the Republicans will tell their cattle that that was racist, too.

Like they ever say anything else.