Identity Politics y la nominación de Sotomayor

El pasado 23 de mayo, Stuart Taylor publicó en el National Journal este artículo contra Sonia Sotomayor: Identity Politics And Sotomayor The judge's thinking is representative of the Democratic Party's powerful identity-politics wing.

El autor explica que su nominación sería una confirmación de las políticas de identidad que tanto se le achacan al partido demócrata y que no se antojan como realmente imparciales e independientes. Y es que la ahora nominada dijo:
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
-- Jueza Sonia Sotomayor, en su Lecture dentro de la cátedra Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity en la University of California (Berkeley) School of Law en 2001

El argumento fuerte de Taylor es:
"Imagine the reaction if someone had unearthed in 2005 a speech in which then-Judge Samuel Alito had asserted, for example: "I would hope that a white male with the richness of his traditional American values would reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn't lived that life" -- and had proceeded to speak of "inherent physiological or cultural differences."

Recomiendo para el tema también darse una vuelta por el Blog Vamos a Discutirlo, en donde Polo tiene una entrada interesante: La identidad sexual -o étnica/racial- determina nuestra postura política?