This is what we have to look forward to, what the people of Michigan will have in their future if if they vote to retain racial preferences for certain groups:
The Supreme Court [of India] Thursday ruled that the more affluent and privileged — termed as creamy layer — among the scheduled castes and tribes quota beneficiaries should be kept out of the purview of reservation in government jobs and education.
India, at least, generally speaks about these matters more forthrightly than we do here, although the above quote, even though it speaks frankly of “quota beneficiaries,” is something of an exception because what it refers to as “the scheduled castes and tribes” are almost universally referred to in India as “the backward classes.” “Reservation,” by the way, is what racial preference/affirmative action is called in India.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) expressed the consensus of all the “Left parties”:
The CPI said the judgment was “very retrograde. It is a judicial assault on the most oppressed sections of our society. If it is not reversed, it will tremendously impact in scuttling and eventually dismantling the whole objective of affirmative action and the goal of education and employment for all.”
Perhaps opponents of racial equality in Michigan should think of the Indian Communists before likening opponents of racial preferences to members of the KKK, something that happens every day to supporters of MCRI, as Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity just pointed out:
When debating MCRI at the University of Michigan this week, one of my opponents made it a point not once, but twice, to liken the proponents of MCRI to the Ku Klux Klan. The second time, he did acknowledge that I wasn’t actually a member of the KKK—just that I shared the common goal of making racial preferences illegal. The same thing happened the following night, against another opponent, in a debate at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
Actually, I thought the KKK rather liked some racial preferences. As did the Nazis. As do the opponents of MCRI. But I don’t mean to suggest that these groups are all the same. Just that they want the same things. That’s all.
ADDENDUM
See the follow-up to this post here.
John, why look to India to find a communist link to proponents? What about the open American communist organization, By Any Means Necessary?
BAMN members have repeatedly admitted their “Trotskey-ite” links.
Of course, I don’t use the “Communist” label much in debate, even in response to the KKK charge (Luke Massie levied Wednesday in a debate I had with him at Central Michigan University). The better response is to stay focused on message, after a short rebuttal.