Posted on 08/26/2020 7:04:14 AM PDT by karpov
In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209 by an impressive 56-to-44 percent majority. Prop 209 amended the state’s constitution to prohibit the granting of preferences based on race or gender. It inaugurated a series of campaigns, led by businessman and University of California Regent Ward Connerly, that by 2006 had established similar prohibitions in 10 states.
A few weeks ago, in a move perfectly in sync with the racial politics of 2020, the California legislature put a referendum on the November ballot that invites voters to repeal Prop 209. The new Proposition 16 would allow the state government, and state officials, to take racial and gender “diversity” into account in their decisionmaking. In other words, it would allow officials in state government and state universities to freely discriminate on the basis of race or gender.
Listen closely, and you will hear that race-conscious preferences to achieve “equal” racial representation is the principal substantive idea that advocates for change are advancing to combat America’s fundamentally “racist” nature. Increasingly, there is no pretense that this is about eliminating discrimination.
On the contrary, it is about institutionalizing discrimination to achieve racial proportionality.
The spirit is well-captured by a recent, full-page headline in the New York Times’ Arts & Leisure section that read, “Fix Classical Music. Now.” Inside, the Times’ classical music critic, Anthony Tommasini called for abolishing blind auditions—a reform that was instituted by most top orchestras in the 1970s and 1980s to overcome a history of discrimination against women. Tommasini conceded that blind auditions might have been useful in increasing the number of women in orchestras, but now, they have become an impediment to achieving racial diversity. This sort of logic can only end in the assignment of orchestral seats on the basis of race.
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We need state sponsored racism!!!!
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This sort of logic can only end in the assignment of orchestral seats on the basis of race.
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Not just orchestral seats. How about luxury seats at sporting events, theatrical productions, music concerts, and any other events that attract spectators? The liberal elites would be the first to complain. They love their privileges.
[interesting side bit in the above] ...the Times’ classical music critic, Anthony Tommasini called for abolishing blind auditions -- a reform that was instituted by most top orchestras in the 1970s and 1980s to overcome a history of discrimination against women. Tommasini conceded that blind auditions might have been useful in increasing the number of women in orchestras, but now, they have become an impediment to achieving racial diversity.
Given the Prop 209 repeal, plus the racist malfeasance against Asians at Harvard and other schools, and with the backstory of Asians using guns from the rooff to defend their stores during the racist riots in LA years ago, any Asian voter who still supports the Demagogic Party is just an a-hole. For various other reason, the same goes for women, men, blacks, whites...
“We need state sponsored racism!!!!”
Nah, I think we already have it.
1965. George Lincoln Rockwell. "Your skin color is your uniform."
2020. Gavin Newsom. "Your skin color is your uniform."
We’ve had it for the last almost 60 years, since Kennedy’s EO first calling for affirmative action.
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