Diversity thumbs on the scales

The Washington Times ^ | June 22, 2003 | John Hasnas

[TBP]

Any day now, the Supreme Court will announce its decision on the constitutionality of the University of Michigan's affirmative-action policies. Advocates for minorities hope the court will uphold the program. It should not. Such a decision will almost certainly damage the long-term interests of the very groups the proponents of diversity seek to protect.

[TBP]

It is clear to anyone willing to look that liberals don't like minorities; they just want to exploit them. Their efforts to restore the governing principle of Jim Crow shows it conclusively.

[newgeezer]

Diversity thumbs on the scales

Love that title. Perfect analogy.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Dream" is dead, and it's his successors who're making sure it never gets a chance to live.

[schaketo]

I read an interesting comparison recently of GW Bush and Richard Nixon. The article made a compelling argument that both talked like conservatives but governed and legislated like liberals.

Are we being lulled to sleep? Are we being duped? I’m beginning to think so. Think about it:

This administration supports this racist and unfair decision.
This administration is pushing one of the largest income redistribution plans in history via the so called “Prescription Drug Plan”.
The “Education Plan”?
Federalizing Airport Screeners?

The list goes on and on. The true colors are bleeding through. I’m heading back to the Libertarian Party.

[South40]

[Uncle Miltie]

Racism is the constitutionally approved policy of the country.

[caisson71]

The SCOTUS has made its decision. The decision is that minorities cannot achieve success on their own, they need help and preferential treatment because they are not the best and the brightest. Of course, for every minority given preference because of race, another American is being discriminated against because of his race. The Supreme Court's decision will be far reaching, encompass more than admission to a law school and will do more to devide us than unite us. The libs are winning for "devided we will fall".

[TBP]

So at least 5 members of the Supreme Court are racists.

That's why we must change the Court.

[TBP]

Thanks for the interesting link.

[cyborg]

But once vested with the power to classify citizens by race, politicians quickly learn how to turn it to oppressive purposes. Only 28 years after the passage of the 14th Amendment, the Supreme Court decided Plessy vs. Ferguson, which permitted the states to segregate the races for the supposedly benign purpose of preserving "the public peace and good order." It took another 58 years of living with Jim Crow and the consequences of the internment of Japanese-Americans for the court to learn that the only way to prevent politicians from exploiting minorities was to deny them the power to classify citizens by race and ethnicity altogether. This was the wisdom embodied in Brown vs. Board of Education.

*The road to hell is paved with a liberal's good intentions. I find this statement I've clipped above to be absolutely true. take away racial classification on applications, and we won't be having this discussion.