Posted on 09/22/2023 7:54:11 PM PDT by aquila48
When Ibram X. Kendi’s preposterous thesis that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination” becomes mainstream practice, you know things are upside down.
Kendi is the author of the poorly reasoned 2019 leftist propaganda book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” which became not only a bestseller, but a clarion call for progressives.
In a speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Kendi put his anti-reasoning skills on display, according to the New York Post. “When I see racial disparities, I see racism,” Kendi said. If that isn’t a blanket generalization, the logical fallacy of that name has no meaning.
And yet Kendi’s obtuse theories have burrowed deep into some of America’s most beloved institutions like a fever-carrying tick in a bloodhound’s ear.
The United States Military Academy in West Point, New York — which has graduated the likes of Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower — is one such institution. And it’s being called out for it.
On Tuesday, lawyers representing the Students for Fair Admissions sued West Point for alleged race and ethnicity discrimination in admissions decisions, according to Politico. SFFA is the anti-affirmative action group that tanked race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard in a Supreme Court decision.
But the decision that nixed racial admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill determined that because no military academy was party to the suit, the opinion did not include admissions issues at these schools “in light of the potentially distinct interests that military academies may present,” according to Politico.
SFFA didn’t agree with the justices’ logic and argued there is “no justification for using race-based admissions” and, since the practice is now illegal at non-military universities, West Point “is not exempt from the Constitution.”
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I have no problem with DJT not having served...he had a legitimate excuse. The Big Guy...Billy Bob...Osama Obama? Different story.
There's no way that I'd serve under the likes of the Big Guy.
Has been.
Our entire Government is infected with these people!!
The POLICIES come from the commander-in-chief. Those policies get intentionally detached from the smoky back room orders by the CIC and laid upon the joint chiefs who then pass it along down the chain of command.
Don’t be blaming the institutions for the policies. The CIC and JCOS made sure the “right people” were placed into those positions of administration and also given their marching orders.
That’s how it works. That’s how it’s always been done.
The POLICIES come from the commander-in-chief. Those policies get intentionally detached from the smoky back room orders by the CIC and laid upon the joint chiefs who then pass it along down the chain of command.
Don’t be blaming the institutions for the policies. The CIC and JCOS made sure the “right people” were placed into those positions of administration and also given their marching orders.
That’s how it works. That’s how it’s always been done.
Two wrongs do NOT make a right! I have witnessed racism on both sides of the race spectrum. It is a common human sin that knows no boundaries. Approach each person as a sacred creation of our triune God and this scourge will soon disappear.
What is lefty or trollish in asking about a pic that we all know exist?
Looks to me like the Corpse of Cadets.
About thirty years ago Democrats were told to quit their opposition to the military academies. Instead, they should nominate candidates from known left-wing or Marxist families. The results today are obvious.
Removed only because we found out about it
Where I live - in the Deep South - the two cultures/races get along well together. It’s the Yankees that take a little getting used to.
Really? As if you ever amounted to anything..
The Wakandette Hairstylist Platoon.
Left off that Robert E. Lee was a West Point graduate as well.
only idiots play rigged games
Note the "Black Power Fists" of every one of those useful idiots.
Imagine if a group of white cadets were giving a white power salute.....
Yes to everything; it’s clear for anyone willing to look.
No doubt Western civilization is under assault by the international left; using race and gender and our own societal and governmental institutions—which they have patiently “assimilated” over decades to do so.
The only racists I ever met in a 40 year engineering career were young black women in HR!
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