Minority Representation: Solution … Or Problem?
The Chronicle of Higher Education points to an audit of the University of Missouri at Kansas City that found “a miserable climate of race relations on the campus, particularly in the faculty ranks,” according to an article in the Kansas City Star. The audit, commissioned by the university, revealed the most racist place on campus […]
Old Dominion Dems Decry Diversity!
The Hook, a weekly newspaper in Charlottesville, has an article in the current issue leading up to the city council election next Tuesday whose dramatic headline asks: “Countdown: Can Dems Retake Council?” I’m tempted to say that question is sooooo Charlottesville, but I’m afraid it’s rather typical of Dems these days (in Charlottesville, like many […]
MCRI Opponents: “Leaving No Fear Unturned…”
I have ranted and raved pointed out here more times than I can cite that the rampant mendacity of opponents of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative knows no bounds. Now a prominent columnist, Thomas Bray, in a major Michigan newspaper, the Detroit News, has noticed, and skewered, the same sorry phenomenon. One United Michigan, the […]
The Race Card?
Tim Wise, who strikes me as sort of an Al Sharpton in whiteface without the eloquence or religious trappings, was asked at one of his man speeches whether or not [he] believed that racism — though certainly a problem — might also be something conjured up by people of color in situations where the charge […]
Turn Back The Clock? Yes, Let’s!
Social Text is a post-modernist humanities journal published at Duke, perhaps best remembered for its gullibility in the hilarious hoax perpetrated on it by physicist Alan Sokal in 1996. (His article, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” was purposefully written as nonsense, but the editors fell for it.) An article soon […]
Limit “Affirmative Action” To Where It’s Needed
In Michigan, as we’ve seen in a number of posts here, the ladies are worried about losing their special treatment. But across the country it is less and less clear that affirmative helps women (even aside for the stereotyping that it assumes and reinforces). For example, from Colorado: The Colorado Commission on Higher Education’s recent […]
“Cheap” Labor?
Thomas Sowell makes a good point: “‘Cheap labor’ can turn out to be the most expensive labor this country has ever had.” … Amnesty would mean, for many illegal immigrants, that they would not merely have the same rights as American citizens, but special privileges as well. Affirmative action laws and policies already apply to […]
The Blade Is Not Very Sharp
Well, now it’s easier to see why the Toledo Blade sees nothing wrong with having an ill-informed but outspoken polemicist as its ombudsman. (See here and here) A responsible and fair-minded ombudsman would have nixed the Blade’s Monday editorial, “Don’t Call It Civil Rights.” According to that editorial: Now that the so-called “Michigan Civil Rights […]
More MCRI Misinformation
Opponents of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative continue trying to scare women by putting out patently false predictions of what MCRI would do. Here’s one more typical example: Affirmative action policies, including local school efforts to encourage high school girls to consider careers in science and engineering, outreach to ensure that qualified women are considered […]
Skidding Down The Slippery Slope Of Anti-Neutrality
The theoretical core of support for racial preferences is rejection of the principle of neutral, colorblind equal treatment. Neutral, colorblind equal treatment, so the argument goes, merely reinforces the results of past discrimination. True equality, the preferentialists proclaim, requires “taking race into account” and treating some people better than others based on their race. But […]
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