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Regarding Sotomayor: this does not speak well of me, but as someone who grabs the popcorn when race, gender, and class privilege goes transparently public, the time between now and her hearings is going to be a sociocultural trainwreck of mindbending proportions. To borrow a line from the comments section at Alicublog (don’t have a link, it’s been awhile): it’s amazing how quickly they’ve gone from dog whistles to electric sousaphones. “Carnival of the damned” may later be seen as putting it lightly.
“Taylor, who believes the greatest injustice in Western history was Sotomayor’s failure to ignore established precedent in the Ricci case and act as an empathetic, activist judge on behalf of a plaintiff he finds sympathetic, has been a fervent supporter of racial profiling.”
