The perils of post-modern mumbo-jumbo writ large

It would be tough to top this ridonkulous pile of bullcrap from our newest Supreme Court nominee from Judge Sonia Sotomayor:

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

So if Latina women are so wise, why would a Supreme Court nominee, blessed with these Latina woman super-powers, embarrass herself in public by saying something so provincial, divisive, and intolerant?

This statement sums up what is wrong with today’s Left most succintly. Note that she doesn’t just speculate that a minority woman—with the alleged “richness of her experiences”—would be wiser than a white male. She actively hopes for it.

In other words, this isn’t idle academic theorizing, based on sober and professional research. It is instead the fruition of decades of Post-Modern mumbo-jumbo about narratives being “truer” than the facts that inform them.

And a bigger pile of bullshit is harder to imagine.

Sure, lots of people walk around with these kind of thoughts in their heads. Only the dim bulbs among us say them out loud.

Yet today, it is considered “wisdom” when uttered by a Latina woman? Riiiiiggghht.

Gosh, thanks, but I’m trying to cut down on my racist platitudes!

It looks like we’ve already forgotten, after just 45 years, that Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement were all about ignoring skin color and racial identity, not elevating and exploiting it. I’d love to hear somebody tell me why was it was wrong for whites to say—and believe—similar things about blacks for centuries, but perfectly fine for Latinos or anybody non-white to say—and believe—similar things about whites today.

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And even in today’s supposedly “tolerant” world, white men constantly pay a price for making remarks even less inflammatory. We see it played out a few times a year, every year.

But a Latina woman? You go girl! Blast away!

I’m sorry, but I’ve had quite enough of this lunacy. There was a time and place when it would have been rightly dismissed by the culture at large. Today, though, we are too cowed by fear of being labeled “haters” to call out racist bullshit perpetrated by non-whites.

Well, racist bullshit cuts both ways, folks. And that’s exactly what this is: pure, 100%, unfiltered racist bullshit.

And from a Supreme Court nominee. My, my. How far we have fallen.

And she’s on record saying this numerous times. Obviously, Judge Sotomayor wants us to know that she has a race-infused worldview, about alleged street smarts and female empathy being superior to both analytical logical skill picking through Constitutional law, and clarity of thought to separate relevant facts from irrelevant facts.

That’s just silly. And it leads to bad decisions.

Presidents do only a few things that really impact our lives in any lasting, meaningful way. One of those, though, is nominating Supreme Court justices who then serve for life. Obviously, a very powerful tool in the President’s bag. And when he (or she) abuses that power—and the Constitution—by appointing nominees who share their misguided attitudes about the importance of judicial “empathy”, I have to call them on it.

So, here is the new reality: our intellectual standards have been lowered so much that even a Supreme Court nominee can say something stupid, that goes to the very question of their fitness for that appointment, with no national outrage.

Maybe too many of us have learned to accept racist demagoguery and pandering as essentially “normal”. Or maybe too many of us actually embrace such world views, unless and until they become embarrassing. Bad news, either way.

To me, this is a good example that illustrates how we’ve ended up in this intellectual wasteland because too many of us bought into politically-correct, post-modern silliness about class warfare outranking accomplishment, and narratives trumping facts.

And when cultures embrace such silliness, they end up nominating judges with clearly anti-Constitutional attitudes to the Supreme Court, where they decide Constitutional questions.

You don’t have to be conservative to see through this looniness. You just have to be awake.