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The Affirmative-Action Aristocracy? [Victor Davis Hanson]
NRO Corner ^ | June 01, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/01/2009 8:54:52 AM PDT by Tolik

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1 posted on 06/01/2009 8:54:53 AM PDT by Tolik
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2 posted on 06/01/2009 8:56:14 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: neverdem; Lando Lincoln; SJackson; dennisw; kellynla; monkeyshine; Alouette; nopardons; ...


    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

       Let me know if you want in or out.

Links:    FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
                His website: http://victorhanson.com/
                NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
                Pajamasmedia:
   http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/

3 posted on 06/01/2009 8:56:40 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik
"The scoundrel Ward Churchill"

Will some one please inform Churchill that he has been outed and needs to give it up?

4 posted on 06/01/2009 8:59:39 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: Tolik

This comment may not apply to Judge Sotomayor, but I find it ironic that racial minorities self-seggregate on college campuses. It’s reasonable to assume that many of those now working in this administration were among them, but we’re not supposed to look too closely to what they may have said or done in college.

This is how minorities learn about collective action against “the System”. They never really integrate. Of course the Press would have you believe the fairy-tale they they have.


5 posted on 06/01/2009 9:03:16 AM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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...This has already been posted, can’t do the link thing, thanks anyway fer the ping...


6 posted on 06/01/2009 9:04:36 AM PDT by gargoyle (...66.7% , A good round number...)
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To: gargoyle

I think you mean this post: Lost in the Labyrinth of Race http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261778/posts brought via RealCelarPolitics but originally posted on VDH blog at Pajamasmedia http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/lost-in-the-labyrinth-of-race/

The NRO Corner post is somewhat repackaged and clarified (I think) comparing to the yesterday’s.


7 posted on 06/01/2009 9:10:39 AM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik

Whatever it was originally intended to be, Affirmative Action is now nothing but a racket.


8 posted on 06/01/2009 9:16:45 AM PDT by VR-21 (The election of Barack Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: Tolik

Democrat voters are sort of simple-minded. THey have elected the action figure of their socialist dreams, the affiramtive action figure. So it is not surprising that this affirmative action figure is appointing affirmative action fellows to run this stupid, dumbed down, once Constitutional Republic, nation. Obowma’s worshippers should have the opportunity to purchase affiramtive action figures at Toy ‘R’ Us. Sonia ‘La Raza’ Sotomayor would make a nice one now ...


9 posted on 06/01/2009 9:17:24 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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The children of someone like a Ted Kennedy, after all, enjoyed affirmative action long before it was predicated on race.

The popular notion that the Kennedys were from a family of poor Irish immigrants is, even of itself, only half true. Mother Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, actually came from the same English blueblood line from which my own mother descended and we share a common cousin named Owen Fitzpen, who has a more compelling biography than the Irish side of the family.

10 posted on 06/01/2009 9:17:56 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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...Yea, that’s it. Saw it and responded this morning. Added to the past outrages still fresh on my plate. Thanks fer the link...


11 posted on 06/01/2009 9:31:50 AM PDT by gargoyle (...66.7% , A good round number...)
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and yet to me she appears to be whiter than most of the white males to whom she feels infinitely superior...


12 posted on 06/01/2009 9:33:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: VR-21

37 years ago, when I was in the process of applying to law schools, I briefly toyed with the idea of legally changing my name to Rosalita Gonzales and failing to indicate race or gender on the application forms. As amusing as the results might have been, sanity prevailed.


13 posted on 06/01/2009 9:45:03 AM PDT by p. henry
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To: Tolik

The only people deceived regarding the racial politics issue are the whites. Every other racial group knows damn well the placing of their members in political office means wealth and power transfer from whites to “Third World” constituencies.


14 posted on 06/01/2009 9:46:50 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Tallguy

“I find it ironic that racial minorities self-seggregate on college campuses”

Very True.

In the late 80’s on my unnamed UP-state NY college, about 80% of the ‘people of color’ would not mingle with the rest of the campus.

They held their OWN gatherings ALWAYS on school properties and usually had their own segregated dorm floors.


15 posted on 06/01/2009 9:51:55 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Tolik

The remark that ended the career of Trent Lott used the words “better off”. That was enough to brand him an irredeemable racist.

VDH’s conclusion that libs get do-overs and passes because their hearts and minds are in the right place (according to themselves) is the bottom line fact that each conservative must explain to their lib associates.


16 posted on 06/01/2009 9:54:25 AM PDT by maica (Politics is not about facts. it is about what politicians can get people to believe. - Thomas Sowell)
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“the industry of racial identity should have long ago been shut down, especially since it is often championed by white elites, who, not putting their own children in the public schools and not living in racially mixed neighborhoods (both very concrete ways of helping the “other”), seem to find psychological atonement in advocating diversity preferences, while assuming their own wealth, connections, and education ensure their own privileged offspring the same exemptions.”

The burdened elitist conscience does more to promote the elitist conscience than it does anything else. It won't be elitist if it did otherwise. Keep the white man down, have your kids have the greatest educational advantage regarding the whites. Throw the blacks a bone or two and ensure even less whites attend college. It reminds me of how competitive women compete amongst themselves. These white elitist men have become white women.

17 posted on 06/01/2009 10:02:10 AM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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The Dems can’t give up racial politics now. They’ve built practically their entire raison d’etre around racial victimology. Only the grossest race hustlers could have convinced a sizable percentage of Americans that they are victims in the best country on earth for getting ahead...if you have the right attitude.


18 posted on 06/01/2009 10:17:12 AM PDT by driftless2 (four)
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To: Tolik
The affirmative action racket is only one part of the story.
Of course, it's the piñata that keeps on giving.
But the bilingualism of this intifada, the road to Quebec and cultural polarization,
adds an element of confusion into this which is part of Obama's Alinskyite tactics and methodology.

Sotomayor and both Obamas are pampered beneficiaries of affirmative action applied to the Ivy universities, with special privileges, advantages, and rigged advancements available to no merely middle-class or even working-class American white males. The New Haven Fire Department case takes on special meaning here. As with Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978). The ideology behind this must be exposed for what it really is. Liberals are using group identity politics to hype imaginary discrimination and grievances. In the New Haven case, the rights of actual American citizens were violated. Reverse discrimination must end. There should be a statute of limitations on these instances of payback.

19 posted on 06/01/2009 10:19:31 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Tolik
There is not much to add here. The concept is as old as our Nation. We are all Americans or we are invaders. It's that simple. The process of citizenship has become a cruel joke.

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”-- Theodore Roosevelt October 12, 1915

"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance." -- Theodore Roosevelt

20 posted on 06/01/2009 10:33:47 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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