e.g. Aravosis and women.
e.g. Sully and about every other oppressed group.

Is she supposed to pretend that she's a white guy?

If he's fine with her judicial rulings, than what do her non-judicial opinions have to do with being a justice?

17 years as a judge, and no one can point to a single opinion where her race or gender plausibly made the difference in the outcome.  That's the real evidence.  What she said to a group of Latino students about what it's like to be a Latina judge, gawd, who cares.  A handful of isolated remarks certainly don't show an "obsession."

They aren't the same thing. But there are clear similarities with recognizable patterns of oppression in:

1. The scope of the oppression (lynching of blacks; six million Jews & an unknown number of gays murdered in the Holocaust; 17-30 million gay men and women tortured and killed by the Catholic Church as "witches"),

2. The types of violence experienced by oppressed groups (from institutionalized oppression to torture and murder),

3. Widespread repercussions from that violence (response to terrorism throughout that population), and

4. Inability or unwillingness of the other members of the oppressor group to stop those performing terroristic attacks on the oppressed minority.

As regular readers know, I fight a constant battle against the rehabilitation of Andrew Sullivan among progressives.

Watching a black man win the South Carolina primary in a landslide by transcending race

It's like telling white Americans that they have to pay restitution to blacks for slavery. No matter that their white ancestors may have died fighting to free slaves, or that they themselves may have risked their lives marching for equal rights. No matter that many whites immigrated to America long after slavery ended. They would still have to pay the bill for someone else's errors, and they're considered the "bad guy" just because their skin color matches that of others who have done wrong. Even citizens who aren't Caucasian or African American but one or more of the other myriad of races that make up our country are held responsible if tax dollars are used.

In Hawaii, restitution in some sense is already being paid. Ethnic Hawaiians (Kanaka maoli) access millions of dollars worth of tax funded programs paid for by all other races. Five white men executed the overthrow of the Queen and they and their airs financially benefited. But instead of going after those rich families, kanaka maoli receive tax money based on an erroneous claim to ownership of land before the overthrow. The common Kanaka maoli were not sovereign, and only one person owned land at that time: The Queen. Aside from that, there still is no reason why every citizen of Hawaii should pay that bill. Filipino immigrant families who work two to three jobs per adult and who live packed into small apartments have to pay that cost. Samoans, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, all the other Pacific Islanders and ethnicity-Americans have to pay for it. Worse, these programs don't even have to be need-based. You can be a so-called "native Hawaiian" sitting in your million dollar home with big screen TVs, SUVs and a swimming pool, and be receiving help from ethnic based programs.

My point here is that if we continue to ignore the complexities of externally caused limitations many groups face, leave ourselves wide open for critics to point at poor Americans who are denied our help because of their skin color, including whites.

Any mention of it is regarded as a species of betrayal of the very privilege it contradicts.

oppressive consciousness of her identity - racial and gender.....deeply entrenched in her generation

I don't know that it is entirely crazy to feel this way, but I also do not understand why there isn't an understanding that what is important are the principles that underpin all of these efforts, and that the more focus there is on principle, perhaps the less segmented and specialized each group's interests would appear to be.  Shouldn't the benefits of progress made for one particular group almost certainly end up benefiting all groups?

Sullivan feeds right into the my-situation/struggle-is-worse-than-yours attitude (even when he is not explicitly referencing the plight of the group to which he belongs, it's right there under the surface) that only ends up annoying people, and sounds like whining, which no one wants to hear.

Not just Sully with his Bell Curve contra punctuality with their decisions now known to have filleted and ruptured society in an economic pandemic, a war with no end, modified with the fear mongering of the far right shows us all they are not only out of step with what America needs and wants they are servants of the rich prime one percenters.

Perhaps you are on target; Sully is just the point person to grease the greed of judicial contra punctuality.

The realization is that now America knows and the world knows this judicial status quo of the current Supreme Court, they themselves are on public trial, they have ruptured society so much so America is floundering in an incredible deceit of corporate and political connections that wreak of the stench in what Obama said simply is "The little secret is that it is legal". And better yet when Obama said "Business betrayed the worker"...

America we see it big time lost the greatest manufacturing concern in America's history, GM, we have dysfunctional gigantic insurance company that can't fail but is, and a host of continued bank failures all the while CMBC rants it is O.K. But it is terrible to worse than anything compared to the first depression. Alarming just about six month George Bush said we have a resilient economy. The Bush administration should hang their head in shame for this horrible situation determined by the "Decider" George Bush.

America has some of the worst rates of child poverty, infant mortality, teen suicide, crime, family breakup, homelessness, and functional illiteracy in the developed world. Huge banking corruption in predator loans by zombie banks all playing havoc on the American citizen this past eight years.

In addition, many of our inner cities have turned into islands of despair, a frightening number of our public schools are dangerous, and more than two million of our residents are behind bars and growing.

I am one who reads him every day, but then he says Sotomayor is "harping" and that is code for annoying female in Sully world.