skippy the bush kangaroo: quote of the day

Friday, May 29, 2009

quote of the day

from adam serwer @ tapped:

what people like taylor find so offensive about sotomayor's statement is that it properly exposes the perspective of white, christian heterosexual men as specific to their experience, rather than the omniscient eye of g-d they're used to presenting it as. does anyone seriously believe dred scott or plessy v. fergueson would have been upheld by any court that had the remotest idea of what it was like to be black or a slave? or similarly that the court would have held in minor v. happersett that being a citizen didn't mean you had a right to vote if you were a woman? do we really believe that judges in these cases were "simply upholding the law" in the absence of the cultural and social prejudices of their times?

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posted by skippy at 10:11 PM |