There’s no such thing as a “reverse-racist”.
You’re either a racist or not.
You're right. But liberalism so dominates our thinking that even most conservatives accept basic liberal premises. Even when our guys fight the left, they often do it on the left's turf.
One of the basic premises of liberalism is that whites are uniquely wicked and are the inventors of racism. Non-whites are good and anything bad they might do is excused as a reaction against white depravity. So while it's good that Gingrich and a few conservatives are opposing Sotomayor and noting her hostility to whites, they still accept the underlying premise that whites are the cause of all racism. Whites had racist feelings against non-whites, which in turn has caused some non-whites such as Sotomayer to turn that racism against white people (i.e., reverse racism). White racism, in this view, was the ORIGINAL racism, the ORIGINAL sin, and thus remains worse.
Conservatives need to escape the ideological trap and verbal quagmire they've fallen into. Still, I guess we should be thankful that someone like Gingrich is at least fighting.
I agree completely. “Reverse racist” sounds like an excuse, as if it’s not as bad as being a “real” racist. This woman is a racist, pure and simple, just like Spike Lee, jesse jackson, Al Sharpton, and “reverend” Wright.