Sotomayor, Day 2
Posted on May 27, 2009 by andrew
I love this Yglesias line:
I had assumed that the way this was going to go was that conservatives would complain that Sotomayor is too liberal, then progressives would try to imply that conservatives were opposing Sotomayor because she’s too Latina, and then conservatives would whine. Instead, though, a large proportion of conservative really do seem to want to more-or-less explicitly hang their hats on the idea that Sotomayor is too Latina for the Supreme Court and that she must be stopped to protect white male privilege.
I can’t believe how true this is. I mean, one of the NRO writers is actually whining about the fact that Judge Sotomayor pronounces her own name with a Spanish accent and the rest of us might also therefore be expected to pronounce it properly! Check out his argument:
This may seem like carping, but it’s not. Part of our success in assimilation has been to leave whole areas of culture up to the individual, so that newcomers have whatever cuisine or religion or so on they want, limiting the demand for conformity to a smaller field than most other places would. But one of the areas where conformity is appropriate is how your new countrymen say your name, since that’s not something the rest of us can just ignore, unlike what church you go to or what you eat for lunch. And there are basically two options — the newcomer adapts to us, or we adapt to him. And multiculturalism means there’s a lot more of the latter going on than there should be.
That’s right, one of the primary problems with Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is her hypothetical preference for the rest of us to pronounce her name the way her name is actually pronounced. How fucking insane is that shit? Are these people really stupid and/or crazy enough to believe that stuff like this is reasonable, let alone a potentially winning argument?
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