Ann Coulter: SO MUCH FOR WISE LATINAS [Whites Need Not Apply]

AnnCoulter.Com ^ | July 1, 2009 | Ann Coulter

[Syncro]

SO MUCH FOR WISE LATINAS
July 1, 2009

With the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

To recap the famous Ricci case, in 2003, the city of New Haven threw out the results of a firefighters' test -- which had been expressly designed to be race-neutral -- because only whites and Hispanics scored high enough to receive immediate promotions, whereas blacks who took the test did well enough only to be eligible for promotions down the line.

Inasmuch as the high-scoring white and Hispanic firemen were denied promotions solely because of their race, they sued the city for race discrimination.

Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out their lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of "talk to the hand." She upheld the city's race discrimination against white and Hispanic firemen on the grounds that the test had a "disparate impact" on blacks, meaning that it failed to promote some magical percentage of blacks.

This strict quota regime was dressed up by the city -- and by Sotomayor's opinion -- as a reasonable reaction to the threat of lawsuits by blacks who were not promoted.

That's a complicated way of saying: Racial quotas are peachy.

According to Sotomayor, any test that gets the numbers wrong -- whatever "wrong" means in any given context of professions, populations, applicants, workers, etc. -- is grounds for a lawsuit, which in turn, is grounds for an employer to engage in race discrimination against disfavored racial groups, such as white men.

Consequently, the only legal avenue available to employers under Sotomayor's ruling is always to impose strict racial quotas in making hiring and promotion decisions.

Say, if the threat of a lawsuit permits the government to ignore the Constitution, can pro-lifers get New Haven to shut down all abortion clinics by threatening to sue them? There's no question but that abortion clinics have a "disparate impact" on black babies.

This week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 for the white and Hispanic firefighters, overturning Sotomayor's endorsement of racial quotas.

But all nine justices rejected Sotomayor's holding that different test results alone give the government a green light to engage in race discrimination. Even Justice Ginsburg's opinion for the dissent clearly stated that "an employer could not cast aside a selection method based on a statistical disparity alone."

Indeed, the dissenters argued that the case should be returned to the lower courts to look for some hidden racial bias in the test. For Sotomayor, the results alone proved racial bias.

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[lormand]

Any GOP Senator who votes yes on her needs full throttle attacks from us, 24/7 until they are out of office.

[rockrr]

"That's a complicated way of saying: Racial quotas are peachy...if you're black.

C'mon Annie, accuracy counts!

[pissant]

Annie rips the ‘wise latina’ a new one.

[RonDog]

[Monterrosa-24]

So what are the odds that this Not-so-wise Latina is going to be confirmed to the Supreme Court?

[duckman]

Ann could use a few Happy Meals.

[Syncro]

Pay for play, leftist SOP

She’s a shoo in

[Venturer]

This has been going on in Fire and Police Departments for 40 years. It’s about time it was stopped.

I remember a time when the dates on the exam ran out, and they were coming to some black members so they extended the dates on the old test instead to promote them.

[pissant]

Getting worse by the day

[healy61]

She is not as much a “wise latina” as she is a wisea** latina.

[snowtigger]

So what are the odds that this Not-so-wise Latina is going to be confirmed to the Supreme Court?

Approaching 100%, I'd say.

[AGreatPer]

"overturning Sotomayor's endorsement of racial quotas."

All I have heard from the media is that several of her decisions have been overturned. I never see any detail on what they were.

So, how many strikes does a sitting judge get? I would like to see her total numbers on decisions.

If she would be in a business community she would be outta there.

[driftless2]

Nothing epitomizes the race-obsessed minds of liberals more than the Ricci case. To an average, sane American, Ricci and the others clearly should have been promoted. But to libs like Ginsburg, there exists some sort of arbitrary, racial system where logic and reason are disregarded in favor of "social justice."

The minority vote cannot be defended on any sane, logical, and most of all moral grounds. But they dissented anyway. The question is why? What possesses these four fools to believe in their worthless beliefs about making life "fair" instead of abiding by legal arguments? You want to shake these people withing an inch of their lives. But I'd settle for having them resign in disgrace...after facing Ricci and the othe firefighters who were originally rejected and telling them face to face why they should have been discriminated against.

[driftless2]

Nothing epitomizes the race-obsessed minds of liberals more than the Ricci case. To an average, sane American, Ricci and the others clearly should have been promoted. But to libs like Ginsburg, there exists some sort of arbitrary, racial system where logic and reason are disregarded in favor of "social justice."

The minority vote cannot be defended on any sane, logical, and most of all moral grounds. But they dissented anyway. The question is why? What possesses these four fools to believe in their worthless beliefs about making life "fair" instead of abiding by legal arguments? You want to shake these people withing an inch of their lives. But I'd settle for having them resign in disgrace...after facing Ricci and the othe firefighters who were originally rejected and telling them face to face why they should have been discriminated against.

[DoughtyOne]

Sotomayer was a lousy pick.  That's for sure.


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[Syncro]

I usually post a larger excerpt but not the full column, so here is the next little bit:

The one advantage Sotomayor's talk-to-the-hand opinion has over Justice Ginsburg's prolix dissent is that brevity prevented Sotomayor from having to explain why quotas aren't quotas. 

That was left to Ginsburg. 

Liberals desperately want race quotas -- as long as quotas never come to their offices. 

But they can't say that, so instead they talk in circles for 10 hours straight, until everyone else is exhausted, and then, when no one is paying attention, they announce: So we're all agreed -- we will have racial quotas. 

Based on her lifetime of experience working as a firefighter, Ginsburg said: "Relying heavily on written tests to select fire officers is a questionable practice, to say the least." Liberals prefer a more objective test, such as race. 

Isn't excelling on written tests how Ruth Bader Ginsburg got where she is? It's curious how people whose entire careers are based on doing well on tests find them so irrelevant to other people's jobs. 

In the middle of a fire, it can either be a great idea or the worst possible idea to open a door. An excellent method for finding out if your next fire chief knows the correct answer is a written test. 

Unleashing the canard of all race-obsessed liberals, Ginsburg observed that courts have found that a fire officer's job "involves complex behaviors, good interpersonal skills, the ability to make decisions under tremendous pressure, and a host of other abilities -- none of which is easily measured by a written, multiple choice test." 

So does a lawyer's job. And yet attorneys with absolutely no "interpersonal skills" get cushy jobs and extravagant salaries on the basis of their commendable performance on all manner of written tests, from multiple choice LSATs and bar exams to written law school exams. 

I note that Ginsburg has not shown any particular interest in rectifying the "disparate impact" of legal exams: She never hired a single black law clerk out of the dozens she employed in more than a decade as an appeals court judge. (Her hiring practices on the Supreme Court are a state secret, but I can state with supreme certainty that her clerks do not reflect the racial mix of Washington, D.C.) 

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[Walrus]

EVERY senator, Democrat or Republican, needs “full throttle attacks” until they are out of office.

NOT ONE MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS WILL BE LEFT STANDING UNTIL WE GET OUR COUNTRY BACK!

[Dacus943]

""Is the applicant black, female or otherwise handicapped?"

OMG!

[Mustangman]

I read recently that the following questions were thrown out of some standard school exams for being ‘racially insensitive.’ I'd laugh if it wasn't so stupid and idiotic and hurtful to our society

Question 1. Tom has six boxes. He places 2 in a closet and two under his bed. How many boxes does Tom have left to put away?—Question was thrown out because ‘Tom’ is not a name recognized in many cultures. I guess they should have called him Mookie.

Question 2. A teacher tells a student to type a six-hundred word essay. If a student can type 60 words a minute on average, how long will it take to type the essay? This question was thrown out because most poor folks (read black folks ) supposedly do not own a computer.

Simple math questions tossed out due to tangential issues unrelated to the question. Jeez. Liberals are absolutely freakin’ nuts!!!!