The next issue of the ever-so-clever National Review will feature several scathing, batshit-crazy, fact-devoid critiques of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. And while the editors and writers at that fantastic magazine are bound to refer to Sotomayor as a "racist" on several occasions, something tells me they will never mention the blatant racism in the cover of next week's issue.
The right has completely bastardized the "wise Latina" comments to a point where it is no longer comical. For the first week, it was hilarious to watch privileged white hicks like Newt Gingrich and Tom Tancredo bounce off the walls trying to paint her as the equivalent of a Klan member. It was the perfect straw man argument coming from the mouths of men who can't atone for their own racism, and was surely worthy of laughter from those who know better than them. But now, these baseless attacks have gotten older than Dick Cheney insinuating that Obama supports terrorism.
Now, the folks over at the National Review have the audacity to call Sotomayor a racist while portraying her as a caricature of an Asian Buddhist. Brilliant! Nothing says "equality" more than portraying all races as one flimsy caricature. Either that, or the National Review is like most conservatives these days: unable to grasp the concept of minorities being proud of their heritage, and unable to decipher one race from another. As far as they're concerned, all brown people are the same and are united by the fact that they aren't white.
I wonder what next week will hold. Maybe Sotomayor will be wearing a turban? Oh wait-- I must have confused that statement with this billboard in Missouri. Yep, Obama's brown, he must be a Muslim terrorist; Sotomayor's brown, she must be a hippie Buddhist.
And so it goes.
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