Posted on 03/14/2020 1:06:33 PM PDT by Kaslin
On March 9, 2020, the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee approved House Bill H440, a measure outlawing race-based affirmative action in state agencies, state contracting, and public education. The bill is currently on Idaho’s full senate floor for amendments. Once amended and signed by Governor Brad Little into law, H440 will make the Gem State the ninth to adopt a statewide ban on affirmative action.
The other eight states are: California, Washington, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Arizona, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma. In most cases, measures to ban racial discrimination and preferential treatment were passed by popular votes on the ballot.
At the national level, we are also witnessing a descending trend regarding the legal parameters and public attitudes supporting race-conscious admissions. Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings in 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger and 2006 Fisher II have narrowly tailored race considerations in admissions to suffice compelling government interests and strict scrutiny. On June 29, 2018, the Education Department Office for Civil Rights (OCR) restored a policy notice dating back to the Bush era which instructs all schools receiving federal financial assistance to strictly observe relevant U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the use of race in college admissions. On July 3, 2018, the Justice Department rescinded seven policy documents that promoted racial balancing in postsecondary education.
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Prop 209 in California ended so-called “Affirmative Action” perhaps 20 years ago but it wouldn’t pass with today’s California electorate.
Furthermore, so-called “Affirmative Action” is alive in well in other forms at the PC universities and gov’t hiring. And in the private sector.
Affirmative action is now masquerading under a different banner of “Diversity” “Outreach” and “Inclusion.” Nothing has changed.
So-called “Affirmative Action” is actually worse than arbitrary discrimination by individuals. Rather, it is STATE-SANCTIONED DISCRIMINATION! That’s far worse than random discrimination by random bigots. It’s a uniform policy by a fascist government that looks at people’s skin color and then makes decisions based on skin color.
It’s astonishing that leftists can get away with this type of fascism, but alas, they are of the same cloth as Hitler’s racist fascism, but without the gas chambers.
Ask a liberal why do they approve of using “racism” to end racism? They get a confused look on their faces because they know you have a point.
Ping.
“2003 Grutter v. Bollinger”
Now THAT was a good one.....
Goddamn Sandra Day O’Connor.
Don’t need it anymore. People of color are rapidly becoming a plurality. Once they are the majority there will be no AA for the white minority.
The rest of the Prop209 keyword:
I recall former President Dubya speaking in IIRC a SOTU about the soft bigotry of low expectations. Human nature can kick in, young people can choose paths of least effort knowing that they have a hiring advantage, and viola they are ill prepared for whatever they were hired to do.
This, then breeds resentment among those who worked hard to achieve their successes (including minorities!).
AA hurts everyone.
Especially those groups the lawmakers intended to assist.
Sorry to tell you this, folks. But I see it with my own eyes : Blacks and poor are doing the major food hoarding. It is a scandal.. It is selfish. Everybody will suffer.
Will Affirmative Action, admissions, employment and promotions based on race, one day be thought of like Jim Crow laws, access to public services based on race?
Who are they calling “Asians” here.
South Africa?
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