Comments on: A Sotomayor core dump

By: Eunomia » Perspectives

Eunomia » Perspectives — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:16:34 +0000

[...] circles. This becomes very frustrating for everyone in the debate. Julian Sanchez has more bluntly summed up his frustration: For one, it is basically impossible for me to believe that anyone with two [...]

By: Judge Sotomayor a win-win for Democrats as Republicans fly off the handle

Judge Sotomayor a win-win for Democrats as Republicans fly off the handle — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:43:59 +0000

[...] which Sotomayor sided with her conservative counterpart more often than not. But, as Julian Sanchez writes: “What we’re seeing here, though, is people clinging to the belief that Sotomayor has [...]

By: Advice to Sotomayor: Go Country and You’ll Never Go Wrong | Left Coast Cowboys

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:32:30 +0000

[...] comment, D.C. writer, journalist and blogger Julian Sanchez has one of the best deconstructions here. It’s also probably important to note that Sotomayor’s comment was made at a forum for [...]

By: Live By Ubuntu

Live By Ubuntu — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:08:07 +0000

[...] by numerous prominent conservatives. Second, as Reason magazine’s Julian Sanchez has noted, “[I]t would be weird for a white man to say it because it’s probably not true that the [...]

By: mauman

mauman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:53:31 +0000

“What if a white man said that?”

Switching the words white and black, for example, doesn’t work because history among people is not symmetric.

“Traditional black college” sounds OK. “Traditional white college” doesn’t sound so good.

By: I Guess I’m Young But I Feel So Weary « Keep Calm and Carry On

I Guess I’m Young But I Feel So Weary « Keep Calm and Carry On — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:10:23 +0000

[...] Me too. Also this, from Julian Sanchez: Look, it’s not racist to oppose a Latina judicial nomine, or to oppose affirmative action, [...]

By: ulp

ulp — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:25:11 +0000

I suspect you’d come up with some other reason to view them that way anway, since graduating summa doesn’t seem to alleviate your doubt.

Don’t worry, they didn’t steal your spot.

By: JB

JB — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:18:37 +0000

ulp, I tend to view fratboys as stupid too. Though thanks to affirmative action I view minorities in the same light.

I guess in your eyes that makes it a success.

By: ulp

ulp — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:33:27 +0000

Yeah, JB, it was better back when the Bushes and their ilk were just shooed into Yale based on their names and took C’s.

Don’t you understand that your meritocracy can only be judged on its results?

That’s why dumb fratboys are now viewed as less-qualified by default thanks to legacies.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:26:58 +0000

“achievements of Hispanics are always presumptively attributable to special preferences”

Julian, don’t you understand that this is the problem with affirmative action?

If affirmative action is in place, every person of every group who benefits is now suspect. Did they actually earn their place or were they given it through affirmative action?

That’s the main way affirmative action does so much damage. Minorities are now viewed as less-qualified by default thanks to affirmative action.