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By on 5.28.09 @ 3:14PM

One other point about Sotomayor's comment: it illustrates the extent to which the logic of racial/ethnic identity politics can cause people to say or think things they would clearly recognize as racist in other contexts. If changing the words "Latina" and "white man" around would change your view of the sentence, then perhaps it is time to examine some of your assumptions.

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