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National Review's Wise Latina Caricature Inexplicably Asian
By Brian Beutler - June 5, 2009
As part of a cover package called "The Wise Latina," the folks over at the conservative National Review--apparently flummoxed by the very idea of a "wise Latina"--have caricaturized the Puerto Rican-descended Sonia Sotomayor as an Asian Buddhist.
Good times.
Also featured on the cover in the current issue: "Jonah Goldberg On His Critics." That better be a long article.
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40 Comments
I swear, Republicans don't have a clue about much of anything, do they?
Posted by LindyLou
June 5, 2009 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am sure that if you ask Michael Steele, he will tell you, they meant to do that. This way they stir up more attention that the wise Latina is not so wise. But they on the other hand are just wise enough to be tricky into making you think they are stupid, when they really just play a mean game of stupid-like!
Posted by GTFOOH in reply to a comment from LindyLou
June 5, 2009 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
FREAKIN IDIOTS!!!!!!!!
Posted by GTFOOH in reply to a comment from GTFOOH
June 5, 2009 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, their defense - and it may be valid - is that they made her look Asian because they were playing on the old Confucius/Buddhist monk thing. But the Buddhist monk garb/meditating pose is pretty well-known and recognized - couldn't they have just put her in the pose and clothing and made her look, well, Latina. I mean, when you are already being accused of painting racist stereotypes/caricatures re: the nominee, why dig yourselves into a deeper hole.
And speaking of caricatures - while I know this is generally the style of NR's cover artist, the exaggerated slant-eyes and the big teeth makes the cover look like a WWII-era US propaganda poster. Put some round-rimmed glasses on her and she could be Tojo!
But hey, don't hold it against the folks at NR - for the most part, they are just a bunch of oppressed, upper class, white people. The brown man been keeping them down too long!
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