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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
No, simply that she was as fit as others without asserting that her ethnic heritage and culture experience made her more likely to be fit that others. The element that you regard as unnecessarily focusing on race is the essential issue.
I think it's a mistake to assume ethnicity/culture as a qualification in itself.
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So you're denying the role of race/ethnicity in experience (and, by her extension whether we agree with it or not, wisdom)? That seems way sillier than what she actually said (which is that women and people of color have markedly different experiences than white males).
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No, I think we're very likely to be judged harshly by history. But I think it's easy to assume that had we lived back in time, we'd, of course, bring our superior standards back in time with us. I think it's faulty to assume that. How many white people, Trent Lott apparently excepted, think that legal segregation is where it's at today? And yet, respectable people supported it. Being able to recognize unacceptable law today is no guarantee that you'd have been able to do it in the face of a society that regarded it as normal.
And sure, MysticCat's point that non-whites might have been less likely to agree about the legal decisions we now regard as wrong seems to be a good one. But it's also kind of silly: if we had only been progressive enough to have a more diverse judiciary in the past, we'd have also been a whole lot less likely to regard discriminatory behavior as normal generally, don't you think?
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We'll never know, but even if we assume you're right (note: I doubt you're right),
that has nothing to do with her point.
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