July 20, 2009
Too late to wise up about the "Wise Latina"Trusting the academic records of a race activist - especially when not actually disclosed, but merely attested to - is credulous beyond belief. Behind any Sotomayor is an army of activist professors whose commitment to la lucha is, shall we say, slightly greater than their commitment to the academic integrity of Princeton. At least, in the athlete's case, his coaches and his professors are different people.
This is what is truly remarkable about Judge Sotomayor: at every stage in her career, her success is plausibly and parsimoniously explained by her mere ancestry. In every institution in which she has produced a record of excellence, her biology below the neck is a sufficient explanation of that record. As historians, we cannot even exclude the possibility that she got her Princeton A's because someone helped her with her papers. We have no evidence for this, but we also have no evidence against it - and we are writing history, not conducting a criminal trial. -- Unqualified Reservations: Evidence in current history
Posted by Vanderleun at July 20, 2009 7:26 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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You'd think I could cash in on gov't sympathies toward my heritage as an American Indian, but I guess I just never considered such an embarrassing admission of weakness to be a thing that would redound to my benefit.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at July 21, 2009 11:24 AM