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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Most generously, maybe, but she didn't say that a wise Latina was equally as likely to reach a good conclusion as a white guy; she asserted that the wise Latina was more likely to, and that's why, even in context, I still find it problematic.
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Even if we take it at "face value" and ignore context, the equation breaks down to this:
All things being otherwise equal, having a certain experience > not having that experience.
That sentence only becomes problematic when you unnecessarily focus on the race issue. Besides this, it's patently impossible, since no two people will ever be completely equal, so it is basically irrelevant - of course she thinks she is best fit to make judicial decisions.
Would you really be more comfortable if she said "I think others are better fit than I"?
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
It also doesn't make a lot of sense to me to compare historic legal decisions that we generally regard as wrong today with the likely behavior of anyone in the present.
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It doesn't? Because we're completely immune to poor decision making? We're so infallible that, 100 years from now, nobody will facepalm over our ignorance, just like we do over decisions from 100 years ago, and they did over decisions 100 years before that, and . . .
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