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...vaudevillian assortment of right-wing politicians and commentators have taken this remark as evidence that Sotomayor is a racist who will pursue an unknown agenda once ensconced in that great neoclassical retirement home known as the U.S. Supreme Court. Rush Limbaugh - cue falling sky - declared it the dawn of Macaca-gate II. (See pictures of the Sotomayor hearings...
...Such bigoted vitriol typically ends political careers in the U.S. George Allen’s bid for the U.S. Senate derailed when he referred to one of his opponent’s campaign workers, an American of Indian descent, as a “macaca,” or monkey. In the 2006 and 2008 U.S. congressional and presidential elections, American voters signaled a desire to transcend a history of Jim Crow discrimination. In Israel, however, the country is on an opposite track with careers buoyed by bigotry directed at the country’s Palestinian minority...
...This fellow here ... macaca, or whatever his name is, he's with my opponent." GEORGE ALLEN, about S.R. Sidarth, who was following him with a camera for Democratic candidate Jim Webb AFTERMATH: The clip was posted on YouTube, and Allen apologized. But he lost the election. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...exaggerate slightly. But our culture has experienced an almost psychotic outburst of -isms in the past year. Michael Richards and "nigger." Isaiah Washington and "faggot." Senator George Allen and "macaca." Mel Gibson and "f__ing Jews...
...MACACA n. A racial slur? A kind of monkey? Virginia Senator George Allen, who used it at a campaign rally when he spotted an Indian-American volunteer from his opponent's camp, might define it as "the end of my re-election campaign...