Chameleon Gingrich: Sotomayor's not a racist, but a racialist

[marmar]

:freak:


from ThinkProgress:



Gingrich Shifts Rhetoric On Sotomayor, Calls Her A ‘Racialist’

Newt Gingrich attracted a great deal of attention for himself last month when he said that Judge Sonia Sotomayor should withdraw her nomination because she is a “Latina woman racist.”

That rhetoric proved too much for even right-wing Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL), both of whom distanced themselves from Gingrich.

So Gingrich pretended to back down. “The word ‘racist’ should not have been applied to Judge Sotomayor as a person, even if her words themselves are unacceptable,” he wrote.

But this morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, Gingrich again used the word “racist” but suggested that what he really meant is that Sotomayor is a “racialist”:

When I did a Twitter about her, having read what she said, I said that was racist — but I applied it to her as a person. And the truth is I don’t know her as a person. It’s clear that what she said was racist, and it’s clear — or as somebody wrote recently, “racialist” if you prefer.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/07/gingrich-racialist/


A spokesman for Gingirch told Politico recently, “nothing has changed in the structure of his argument, he is just retracting the word racist.” And apparently replacing it with the word “racialist.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/07/gingrich-racialist/

[asjr]

1. Gingrich is entirely incredible and the only

reason we hear about him is because the media give him a place and space to spout his ugly rhetoric.

[rustydog]

2. Gingrich, Here's ten bucks...Go shave your nuts.

[asjr]

3. Nah--he doesn't have any.

[BlooInBloo]

4. *yawn*

[jmowreader]

5. "Racialist" is worse

I once did a search for Ku Klux Klan websites. I was trying to study the dark history of the South. I noticed that on these websites, the Klukkers don't refer to themselves as racists, but as racialists.

A racialist is someone who believes one race is superior to another, while a racist is someone who hates people of a particular race, or of all races they don't belong to themselves.

[Winterblues]

6. Gingrich is being a racist by carrying on so.

Race would never be mentioned if the nominee was a white man even if he said exactly the same things She has said. Gingrich is showing his racism by bringing up these issues.