Dave Neiwert is very confused about identity politics (Sotomayor)

David Neiwert of Crooks and Liars offers "We Stand With Sonia Sotomayor" (crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/we-stand-sonia-sotomayor) about a new solidarity campaign for her. When some of the comments others left on the post didn't break his way, Neiwert left a comment of his own:

Standing behind her has nothing to do with identity politics. Indeed, it's about refuting white male identity politics -- the primary reason for the right's opposition to her. We stand behind her because of her extraordinary qualifications and her sound legal reasoning. I don't think the fear of Catholicism is a legitimate reason to be concerned, either.

1. About the only form of socially-acceptable "white male identity politics" is to be found in beer commercials or as the butt of jokes. Other than that, as Neiwert would rush to remind anyone, "white male identity politics" equates to the KKK and the like. The debate about Sonia Sotomayor is almost all about her judicial actions, her statements, and how she's manifested her ethnicity. No white leader has ever in any way opposed her because they want "one of us" on the court. The same cannot, of course, be said of other leaders (see UPDATE 4).

2. The idea that identity politics didn't play a major role in her selection is beyond absurd. And, considering that the campaign David Niewert is promoting is from a group called Presente which uses "Latino" no less than eight times just on their About page (presente.org/about) and which seeks to "promote the political empowerment of Latino communities", Neiwert is even dumber than usual.

Comments

You must understand one fact if this pig neiwert and the little brown sister sotomayor "has its way", white people male and female and little ones would be inside some camp system, if people can't or will not see that fact the whites inside the USA And our europen brothers and sisters will someday soon be soon little note in some third world history book if the monkeys can make paper to make book in 50 to 100 years or less. the butt of jokes will someday become the "Final Solution for the white problem",( sotomayor stated in a la raza meeting, "the whites are the race problem", and the only way to remove this problem is to rape its woman and makes its boys into gays ) but also understand one fact the white upper class is in fact also designing its brother and sisters cultural;social death! the enemies of freedom in now political controlling this nation state, and when your enemy is in total control you, sad to say you become a mass member inside a mass grave.

Everything is pigs and monkeys to Fred.