[syriacus]

I forgot to mention Hillary's other silly words. She thinks that, even if it might be wrong to admit students based on their skin color, it's okay to admit them based on their race.

Clinton Joins the Appeal For Affirmative Action {What Color is YOUR Character?}

“Yes, we want to be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. But what makes up character?” she said, quoting from Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

“If we don’t take race as part of our character, then we are kidding ourselves.”

According to Hillary's way of thinking:

Aren't applicants with some Caucasian ancestry, who fill out forms indicating they are Black or Asian, kidding themselves? Aren't they failing to take into account part of their character, the Caucasian part of their character?

[mrustow]

Thanks. Her contradictory rationalization has a distinctively black feel to it. I'll bet no one has ever pointed out to her, face-to-face (since most of her reading consists of synopses prepared by her staff, and she would never read an opponent on her own), that she is contradicting herself. It's a sophisticated sort of contradiction, technically I suppose what an honest logician would call a case of "equivocation," since what she does is use the same term ("character") in two consecutive sentences, but with two different implicit meanings that are mutually incompatible.