Who Knew Liberals Think Affirmative Action Is Bad?
Reasonable people can disagree about the merits of David Horowitz’s proposed Academic Bill of Rights, but the liberal response to it is occasionally confusing in an interesting way. For example, Joan Wallach Scott, a historian at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, speaking at a panel on “Academic Freedom and Middle East Studies” sponsored [...]
AA Officer Sent To Anti-Discrimination Training…
The wives of former New York Mets players George Foster and Bobby Bonilla claim they were denied admission to a park in Greenwich, Conn., because they are black and Puerto Rican, and with the assistance of the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights they filed a complaint against the town. Last Tuesday, the CHRO proposed that [...]
Plaming The New York Times
Regarding chickens coming home to roost, James Taranto says here, much better, something I said two weeks ago here.
Democrats, “Diversity,” And Double Standards
Disagreement about racial preferences is one of the primary divisions between Democrats and Republicans (or at least between Democrats and Republican voters; most Republican office holders are too timid to confront this issue). But in Maryland, as this fascinating article reveals, race is also dividing Democrats. (Funny, isn’t it, how the attempts to promote “inclusiveness” [...]
Equal Opportunity? Forget It!
USA Today ran an editorial on Friday criticizing NCAA member schools for not hiring more black coaches, and a reply of sorts by Charlotte Westerhaus, the NCAA’s “vice president for diversity and inclusion.” The editorial was titled: College football fumbles minority hiring Equal opportunity? For black coaches, those words ring hollow. I can’t say how [...]
Outrageous Associated Press Bias
I have noted here too many times to cite the absurdity of BAMN and other opponents of colorblind equal treatment complaining that advocates of the Michigan Civil Rights initiative are fraudulently misleading when they claim (accurately) that MCRI — which would ban preferences based on race — is intended to protect civil rights. But they’re [...]
An Obituary: “Good Faith,” R.I.P.
The approach of a new year sometimes, as now, brings thoughts of what we have lost. What I miss most in our civil discourse is that it has become almost exclusively uncivil discourse, discourse without comity, resulting in large part from the disappearance of the now old-fashioned notion that people who disagree with you do [...]
Nordic Nostrums
Once again, affirmative action exacerbates rather than ameliorates intergroup relations — here, it’s preferences for Swedes in Finland.
If Everything Is Civil Rights, Nothing Is Civil Rights
Stanley Crouch points out that a conflict does not become a civil rights conflict simply because minorities are involved.
“The Forbidden Preference”
Albert Alschuler, a highly regarded law professor at the University of Chicago, is no radicalrightchristian, but he is very critical of Judge Jones’s opinion in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which threw Intelligent Design out of the Dover, Pennsylvania, schools. (HatTip to Howard Bashman) Most of the Dover opinion says in effect to the [...]
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