[lit-ideas] Re: (K)ant Kills Creativity
- From: "veronica caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:10:29 -0400
<it's absolutely clear that she was
picked for who she is -- a Latina -- as much as for being qualified>
I totally agree with this. And you might agree that Clarence Thomas was
picked for the same reason, to the deep regret of most African Americans.
Sotomayor is a lot more qualified that Thomas was. This whole thing is
about politics, much more than it used to be.
There is still the issue of fairness. Women, of any ethnic variety, make up
51% of the population. They are a small fraction of the legislative bodies
in the US. That there ought to be a relative balance on the court of all
major numbers of people on all federal courts is my position. This,
providing that they are all qualified.
I think there is merit to some people's suggestions that there ought to be
people on the Supreme Court who are more in touch with ordinarily people.
Governors, former governors, etc. Jennifer Granholm, governor of Michigan
was supposedly one of the six actually considered. I don't believe it for a
minute. She supported Sen. Clinton.
By the way, she too is Catholic, but out of favor with the Vatican.
<On a related note, I'm blown away that in a country where the general
voting populace has only ever ONCE elected a Catholic President, that
practically the whole SCOTUS is RC. What happened to this supposed
WASP conspiracy? There ain't none left in that there department.>
To my knowledge, there has not been discrimination against Catholics for a
very long time. They are very prominent in all parts of government, elected
and otherwise. Partly because of the increase in Catholic population due to
immigration and partly since Kennedy everyone votes for them if they like
their positions on issues or whatever.
President Bush demanded their support for his birth control and aids
positions (prohibiting condoms, abortion, etc. in Africa despite the role of
condoms in limiting aids transmission, and the people he appointed to public
office, giving tax money to religious groups, etc.
Obama has continued the tax money distribution because he really liked the
help the Catholic Church gave him in his community organization work. (This
latter was in response to my letter to him, objecting to this practice.)
Veronica Caley
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From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:49 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: (K)ant Kills Creativity
I have no Brazilian friends. But I have been in Brazil. And while they are
more integrated than we are, I saw definite separation. Socially at least.
Veronica Caley
And their drunk-driving laws make our Draconian ones look fair...
On the first subject: I don't think Camille Paglia is as angry as she
seems. I think she is just dismissive of the whole 'woman-as-victim'
trend of the early feminist movement. She's a hell of an art critic
and entertaining, but you have to read her understanding that THAT
pose on the front of "vamps and tramps" is just a pose.
ON the main issue of Sotomayor, it's absolutely clear that she was
picked for who she is -- a Latina -- as much as for being qualified
for the job. But, as John Bolton (Former US Ambassador to the UN)
voiced on Bill Maher's show a few weeks back, (I'm paraphrasing) a
supreme court justice's job is not to write the law, but to apply it
and if in certain instances, you identify as a 'type' and vote as that
'type', then you aren't carrying out blind justice.
Now, of COURSE everyone is biased to some degree and can't escape what
they "are", but she is self-identifying and Obama has tacitly accepted
that as 'a' reason to pick her.
On a related note, I'm blown away that in a country where the general
voting populace has only ever ONCE elected a Catholic President, that
practically the whole SCOTUS is RC. What happened to this supposed
WASP conspiracy? There ain't none left in that there department.
p
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