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A SMART PUERTO RICAN? THAT'S UNPOSSIBLE!
Michael Goldfarb, who subscribes to the idea that by definition, a person of color who achieves academic excellence has been the recipient of "preferential treatment" and is therefore undeserving, discovers that Sonia Sotomayor was asked to teach a class on Puerto Rico while still an undergraduate and remarks:
I went to Princeton but somehow I never got to teach my own class, or grade my own work. One wonders how Sotomayor judged her work in that class, and whether the grade helped or hindered her efforts to graduate with honors.
It is, by definition, impossible for a woman of Puerto Rican descent to be smarter than Michael Goldfarb.
UPDATE: It's not even true! Maybe that's part of the reason why Goldfarb didn't get to teach his own class. But it's probably just because of preferential treatment offered to people like Sonia Sotomayor.
-- A. Serwer
COMMENTS (6)
Best of luck to Sotomayor if the nomination goes through as it seems it will. It's great that she's the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court, but she has a lot of judicial challenges ahead of her. The US faces these domestic challenges but also international challenges. For instance, we should do more to address severe poverty overseas. The Borgen Project has good info on the estimated cost of ending global poverty:
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.
Posted by: David | May 29, 2009 2:21 PM
Does this guy really expect us to believe that they let somone teach and grade themselves?
I HATE the scumbag elite, and even I don't think they are that dumb.
Posted by: soullite | May 29, 2009 6:57 PM
I like the insinuation that maybe she only managed to graduate "with honors" because of one self-directed seminar (whatever the facts around that may be). Sotomayor won the Pyne Prize (awarded to the top couple undergrads based on a combination of intellectual and extracurricular achievement). She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, and was admitted to and attended Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review. Credentialism is obviously not a good way to evaluate people in general, but the fact is that anyone with those kind of credentials is highly unlikely to be sort of a dim bulb. I don't really care whether the people making these insinuations are themselves "racist" or not -- I don't think that's a useful question -- but they are certainly trying to play on stereotypes about the intelligence of minority groups; otherwise these relentless insinuations about Sotomayor's intelligence would just make no sense at all.
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