EDITORIAL: A setback to equality

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/29/7 | Editor

[SmithL]

The Comicle is in favor of State-sponsored racism.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Inequality = equality. Equality = inequality. Got it?

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ll bet that the author of this editorial lives in a Chappaqua-like suburb of SF that’s 95.8% white and 2.1% Asian (as in Cal Tech/MIT graduate Asian).

[The Blitherer]

Thank goodness the Chronicle is against the decision. Otherwise I’d have to rethink my position on it.

[Vision]

What a kook.

[fortheDeclaration]

You don’t end racism by using it.

[MortMan]

It's a shame the "idiotorialist" who wrote this screed doesn't understand that it is equality of opportunity and not outcome that is the goal. Quotas support outcome-based equality, not the opportunity to be rewarded for excellence.

[Neoliberalnot]

THIS IS A HUGE setback for the racists on the left and those making a living by their race-baiting techniques. We once had preference afforded whites, then for 40 years afforded blacks, now back to a level playing field and a race-blinded admissions process.

[vetsvette]

“The Comicle is in favor of State-sponsored racism.”

The Dim’s have, throughout their entire history, been in favor of discrimination on the basis of race. The only thing that changes is which race (or sex nowadays) should suffer the discrimination.

[Old Professer]

“We are equally sure that the great civil rights leader would have been appalled by the Supreme Court’s rulings this week...”

Shouldn’t that have been: “We are equally sure that the Great Civil Rights Leader would have been appalled by the Supreme Court’s rulings this week...”

[Regulator]

Funny how the very same people writing this editorial told us back in the '60s that they were only looking for equal opportunity, not preferences and quotas.

Oops. We lied. We want some pigs to be more equal than others.

Funny about that.

[ishabibble]

The editorial board of the Chronicle will be crying in their designer beer at the S&M leather bar tonight!

[Regulator]

I’ll bet that the author of this editorial lives in a Chappaqua-like suburb of SF that’s 95.8% white and 2.1% Asian (as in Cal Tech/MIT graduate Asian)

That would be Marin County, and the ratios are close to that....few more Asians.

[California Patriot]

Sheer constitutional illiteracy at the Chron. This decision, far from resuscitating Plessy, is in the spirit of the Plessy dissent!

[pogo101]

Treating people equally, regardless of race, is “A Setback To Equality.”

BizzaroWorld.

[EEDUDE]

“Inequality = equality. Equality = inequality.”

That about sums it up.

I have never understood the “we will overcome racism by doing certain things based on race” mentality.

[weegee]

The white population in some areas is below 50% of the population. Will they be elligible for set asides and special considerations when they fall to second or third rank status?

Or does their collective “guilt” of heritage mean they should always have to give a little more?

[weegee]

It certainly doesn’t lead to colorblindness. It requires that everyone take notice.

As to MLK Jr., he was starting to buy into arguments of class issues.

Should we be bussing wealthy families’ kids to the ghetto and telling them that their costly private schools set up a two tiered system for education/discrimination?

[MEGoody]

The court's rulings represent a triumph for advocates of "colorblind policies,"

If racism is truly a bad thing, shouldn't all policies be 'colorblind'?