Reverses and "Reverse Racism"

After the supreme court ruled in favor of the CT firefighters, its no shocker that Hannity, Limbaugh and Murdoch's "balanced" Fox crew are up to their fat necks in false rhetoric about Sotomayor's reversed decision as an appeals court judge.

Limbaugh comments, "Here you have a racist — you might want to soften that, and you might want to say a reverse racist...and the libs, of course, say that minorities cannot be racists because they don't have the power to implement their racism...Well those days are gone! Because reverse racists certainly do have the power... Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and now he's appointed one."

If Sotomayor were on such a pedestal, would her reversal have even been possible? The "reverse-racists" don't have the power. Why? Because they don't exist. At least not by the definition of this case. So what is the major ethnicity that inhabits public office? Old Caucasian dudes.. alright, not the point... except white people can't be accused as reverse racists, which makes the term, uhm what do you call it? Yea, racist.

One fox host invited Leslie Crocker Snyder to discuss Rush Limbaugh's comments of Sotomayor. The host argues to Snyder that when Sotomayor discussed her judgment as a Latino woman in comparison to a white male, by reversing the roles of said white male and Latino woman, the statement is racist. (Don't you adore that our fox anchor is making a right-leaning biased argument?) Watch.

Snyder says the statement is out of context. It is. To say the social impacts of being a woman, or a woman also of any different origin, is no different than an average white male is nominally arrogant. There are sums of evidence that show women alone still, in the year 2009, have lower wages than men. And even more evidence that African American and Latino families are more likely to experience crowded housing, food insecurity and unmet medical needs.

Is empathy not the last cognitive development of the mind? Do some people not even reach that point in their lifetime? College psych 101 - some don't. And I would bet a limb that a Latino woman from a housing project in the Bronx is more likely to have empathy and experience than an American Psycho from suburbia.

Reverse racism - "I'm shitting my pants because minorities want to have power I had for centuries to dominate them... and i don't want to lose it because it was given to me by a magic man in the sky. How dare they! "Maria" Sotomayor (Huckabee) should be a maid, not a judge following history". - youtube user freedomanddemocracy

Another term bookmarked for the double-speak dictionary. I think the real epidemic here is reverse-thought. Leave it up to the right to spoon feed you nonsensical slogans like this one. Support the troops, war is peace, y'all. And horse shit is ice cream.

The city was concerned they would be sued for promoting the firefighters because there would, in turn, not be any black firefighters promoted at that time. The case initially states that the city "was simply trying to fulfill its obligations under Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act]..."-

On the one hand, the act says no employee may be discriminated against because of his or her race, sex, religion or national origin. On the other hand, the law also says an employer can be sued for using a hiring or promotional standard that has a "disparate impact on the basis of race," unless it can be defended as a "business necessity."- Story

Finally, reversals happen. Because Sotomayor was in perhaps the first case where someone going through the SCOTUS confirmation process was reversed, that probably drew a lot more attention to herself. Also her nomination proverbially giving conservatives a "conniption fit" (thanks, pickle).

And thank you mediamatters! for highlighting my point here:

"...Judges get reversed everyday. In fact, the system of American jurisprudence is built upon the idea of judges getting reversed. It happens all the time. And yes, the Supreme Court reverses judges all the time. But only now, in the case of Sotomayor, is the press pretending that that reversal is a singular rebuke; that it's a mark of shame for Sotomayor because she got the case wrong...

But what about the four Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of Sotomayor's Ricci's ruling, should they also be embarrassed because they got the case 'wrong'? Should we question their qualifications for the highest court in the country?" - http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906290010