Laura’s little white slip
by digby
I just don’t see how the Republicans are ever going to be able to deal with their little demographic problem when their leading voices can’t keep their real thoughts to themselves. This comes from Laura Ingraham responding to Justice Sotomayor saying that she uses the term undocumented immigrants because calling “them illegal aliens seemed . . . insulting.”
After claiming that Sotomayor’s preference for one term over the other somehow reflects insufficient respect for the rule of law, Ingraham said that Justice Sotomayor’s “allegiance obviously goes to her, you know, immigrant family background, not to the U.S. Constitution.”
Sotomayor isn’t an immigrant and neither is her family. They are from Puerto Rico, which is an American territory falling under the US Constitution. Sotomayor was born in New York, which the likes of Ingraham may think is a foreign country but actually isn’t. In point of fact, it’s entirely possible that Sotomayor’s ancestors have been in America far longer than Ingraham’s.
It just popped out of Ingraham’s nasty, right wing mouth because that’s where the white right wing mind inevitably leads. And if Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz or Susanna Martinez forgot their talking points for a moment and said something similarly out of line, Laura Ingraham and her ilk would automatically make the same assumption. It’s how their world is organized.
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