re: #96 zombie

However one spins it, invoking race when discussing people’s qualifications or wisdom is offensive. Even if she was just speaking about discrimiation cases, and the full context is considered, it’s still insulting and faintly racist to imply that a racial minority will have a superior opinion on the matter.

Reverse the racial nouns in her sentence to get the full flavor of how bigoted it appears.

I suspect if you reverse it, a lot of the people who are yelling about the statement would actually agree with it.

Example: in a case alleging “reverse discrimination,” in which a white male was denied a job in favor of a Latin candidate, if a judge said “I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina who hasn’t lived that life.”

How many people would agree with that?