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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring
Or maybe it means that in a panel of pretty much old, white men a latino woman would bring the variety that would enrich that panel.
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It would if that is what she stated, and I do believe that is what she intended. In modern politics, she misspoke. But it was a Freudian slip that perhaps says otherwise as well. For someone aspiring to the highest court, it would have been much better to leave any reference to race, or gender, out. The court should be colorblind and gender blind. You don't need to point it out to know she's a woman, and maybe a Latina as well, and that the court has been mainly "old" white men in the past. Shall we discriminate with age now as well?
Now, that is not to say that the court has been particularly colorblind or gender blind in the past, but you don't right wrongs with further wrongs! At best, an honest mistake, at worst, something like the man who once told me, "I'm not predjudice, I'm black".
Buddahaid