Lyndsey Graham defends the oppressed Caucasian male.
Lyndsey Graham finally gets to ask Sotomayer about that "wise Latina" comment. However, I note that he backs off from claiming that he detects racism in that quote and now only asks that Sotomayer consider the reaction were he to have made a similar comment.
He's once again portraying the Caucasian male as the underdog. As a victim who is being unfairly held to a higher standard than everyone else. He sees a world in which everything is slanted towards "minorities" and the most powerful groups, all of which he belongs to - white, male, Christian, heterosexual - are actually the underdogs who are being picked upon.
At the heart of his comments are a belief that political correctness has gone mad and that everything now favours the minorities. It's a familiar right wing rant which enables people born into life's most advantageous groups to portray themselves as, somehow, the victims of the piece.
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The white, male, Christian, heterosexua firefighters that Sotomayor ruled against weren't part of 'life's most advantageous groups'; the Supreme Court knew it and they overruled her.
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