Gingrich, Sotomayor and Hunting Giraffes (Juan Cole)

[kpete]

posted by Juan Cole

Gingrich, Sotomayor and Hunting Giraffes

Republican poobah Newt Gingrich has lambasted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a 'racist' because she implied that a Latina woman could empathize with certain situations as a judge better than a white male could, and so would come to sounder judgments.

Just so everyone remembers, this is Newt Gingrich's idea of the difference between the sexes:

' If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.'
http://www.bartleby.com/66/72/24972.html

I rest Judge Sotomayor's case.

http://www.juancole.com/2009/05/gingrich-sotomayor-and-hunting-giraffes.html