Affirmative Action Has Failed. It Never Had a Chance to Succeed

National Review online ^ | 8-24-17 | David French

[DeweyCA]

People not only don't want to consider that the solution requires a change in culture and religious attitudes because they are hard and long-term, but because many elite Dems see Christianity as being stupid and part of the problem. They hate Christianity because it says that they are accountable to God for their behavior. Their ego is so huge that they don't want to even consider that it may be true, so they try to banish it from society. And our culture and society are in the process of reaping the horrific consequences of their actions.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Trump will end it...

[hal ogen]

Most can’t beat the Bell Curve. At many can’t.

[I want the USA back]

It failed and should have not had a chance to succeed. It is illegal, even if a law allows it. (That law is invalid and therefore not binding.)

[Fiddlstix]

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

You can’t beat your own genetics, unfortunately, no matter how much money is thrown at you.

[Cowboy Bob]

What was that saying about silk purse and sow’s ear?

[P.O.E.]

Cart before the horse and all that.

[ClearCase_guy]

Tyranny of Low Expectations.

The ghetto culture holds people back. Little focus on education. Little focus on getting a job. Little focus on stable families. Little respect for rule of law. Little avoidance of impulsive/violent behavior. Little self control.

Until the culture changes there is no hope. And it is changeable. It’s just culture. You’re not born with it.

But giving food to people, giving shelter, giving education, giving jobs, giving health care — all of this Government Charity (and Affirmative Action is very much part of this) all of that “do-gooder” stuff removes any incentive to adopt a better culture.

And the result is stagnation.
Immigrants come to this country with no money, no language, nothing. And in no time at all they surpass African Americans. Because the new immigrants mostly avoid the ghetto culture.

[Molon Labbie]

It will work if everyone downsizes their home and wills it to POC. /s

[Red Badger]

50 years wasn’t enough time?.......................

[dfwgator]

The ghetto culture holds people back. Little focus on education. Little focus on getting a job. Little focus on stable families. Little respect for rule of law. Little avoidance of impulsive/violent behavior. Little self control.

Just what those White Liberals wanted.

[Mr. K]

Geez, who could have guessed that hiring someone LESS QUALIFIED for a job would have negative effects?

The effort should have been towards making sure your desired benefit group became more qualified- not dumbing down everything else to accommodate them.

That’s the “soft bigotry of lowered expectations” that Rush always talks about.

[ClearCase_guy]

Democrats have been remarkably consistent since before the Civil War — pro-slavery, anti-Reconstruction, pro-Jim Crow, pro-Segregation, anti-Civil Rights Act of 1964, pro-Affirmative Action, pro-Ghetto Culture.

Democrats have consistently done everything they could to make African Americans a subservient class.

The hoary old notion that somehow the two American parties “switched places” in the 1960s and that the Republicans are the racist party with that bad old history, is something that really burns me.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I don’t think enrollment should be the yardstick for success. Instead measure results. How many AA beneficiaries graduate? How many graduate with a useful degree (i.e., not a totally worthless “studies” degree or a degree in community organizing)? How many went on to productive careers that allowed them to become useful members of society? How many got licensed in their chosen professions? How many had their licenses revoked for incompetence or were censured by their profession? How often do they change jobs? How often were they fired for incompetence? How do their stats measure up to others in the profession?

[jonno]

“People not only don’t want to consider that the solution requires a change in culture and religious attitudes...
...our culture and society are in the process of reaping the horrific consequences of their actions.”

Well stated.

[jonno]

“You can’t beat your own genetics”

Sure. But what plays a bigger role in the outcome of a child’s development/success - genetics or family structure/support?

[Carl Vehse]

Affirmative Action is, by definition, discrimination against one or more particular groups of people.

If those groups are racially defined, then Affirmative Action is racist discrimination.

[2banana]

You can’t solve past racism with more racism...

Just like

You can’t solve a debt problem with more debt.

[Impala64ssa]

< Dems see Christianity as being stupid and part of the problem. They hate Christianity because it says that they are accountable to God for their behavior. >
Usually the left smugly proclaims the G-D is dead and Jesus is an "imaginary friend" whose father is a nonexistent "invisible sky daddy". But when it comes to leftist clergy supporting there pet causes, suddenly Jesus is a cool dude. It's nothing new, it goes back to the days when clergy participated in the anti war and anti nuke movements (Father Phillip Berrigan, among others). I remember some coalition of liberal priests insinuating that any Catholic who works in the defense industry will end up in hell if they don't quit their jobs and repent. Of course this was around the time when the priest abuse scandal was still simmering below the surface, just sayin'.