It seems he’s at it once again (remember this time? And this one?) Pat Buchanan – who regularly appears in the big commerical media and is generally accepted as a mainstream (if idiosyncratic) pundit – appears to think that Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination is worse than segregation, slavery, etc. In other words, he likes the old-school racism better than affirmative action. Check it out:
Though the Obama media have been ballyhooing her brilliance — No. 1 in high school, No. 1 at Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review — her academic career appears to have been a fraud from beginning to end, a testament to Ivy League corruption.
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…Sotomayor got into Princeton, got her No. 1 ranking, was whisked into Yale Law School and made editor of the Yale Law Review — all because she was a Hispanic woman. And those two Ivy League institutions cheated more deserving students of what they had worked a lifetime to achieve, for reasons of race, gender or ethnicity.
This is bigotry pure and simple. To salve their consciences for past societal sins, the Ivy League is deep into discrimination again, this time with white males as victims rather than as beneficiaries.
One prefers the old bigotry. At least it was honest, and not, as Abraham Lincoln observed, adulterated “with the base alloy of hypocrisy” [bold added].
Lots of people have problems with affirmative action. I know. But this is beyond insane. The “old bigotry,” it seems to me, involved slavery, the slave trade and middle passage, segregation, beatings, lynchings, cross-burnings, and a host of other brutalities. The “bigotry” that Buchanan really hates, however, is that which helps people from traditionally oppressed groups get opportunities to go to college and such.
Pat’s Analysis:
-Slavery and Jim Crow: Not great.
-Hispanic Woman goes to Princeton: Worse.
Right. Got it.