“Diversity” STEM-Selling, Release 2.0
A few weeks ago on Minding The Campus I discussed The Misguided Push for STEM Diversity, noting that every month or so (or so it seems) a new report appears pointing with alarm to the “underrepresentation” of women or blacks or Hispanics or Aleuts (or usually all of the above) in the STEM fields of [...]
EXTRA! EXTRA! Victor Davis Hanson Gets A Big One Wrong
In a post a few days ago, Would Passage Of The Arizona Civil Rights Initiative Invalidate Arizona’s Tough New Immigration Law?, I attempted to raise a red flag hypocrisy alert by in effect warning my fellow critics of race preferences that we need to temper our enthusiasm for Arizona’s tough new immigration law with an [...]
Would Passage Of The Arizona Civil Rights Initiative Invalidate Arizona’s Tough New Immigration Law?
In the post immediately below I castigated the liberal hypocrisy of defending affirmative action admissions, hiring, etc., because those policies, so the liberals assure us (wink! wink!), are not discriminatory because they use race as “only one of many factors” while they castigate Arizona’s new law allowing police to demand proof of being here legally [...]
More Liberal Hypocrisy: Race “As One Of Many Factors…”
I know, I know. Liberal hypocrisy on matters of race is about as newsworthy as another dog-bites-man story, but this one is too good to pass up. As we’ve seen too many times to cite, one of the most ubiquitous excuses liberals give for why racial profiling by college admissions officers and company employment offices [...]
The New Confederates
Liberals never tire of attempting to tie the albatross of Southern racism and Jim Crow around the neck of all contemporary conservatives, a modern version of “waving the bloody shirt” that Republicans engaged in for a generation after the Civil War and that Democrats, seemingly incessantly, do now. Well, as it happens there are a [...]
Peter Wood On Sweet And Sour “Diversity”: A Real Zingger
Paul Zingg, the president of California State University, Chico, made the mistake of circulating a “diversity action plan for 2010-2015,” To Form a More Inclusive Learning Community, with a cover letter asking for both “feedback” and “input.” One of the copies found its way into the capable hands of Peter Wood, executive director of the [...]
A Caveat To The Response To The “Tea Party Is Racist!” Trope
By now it is clear that there has been a concerted campaign — no need to call it a conspiracy — to brand the Tea Party movement as racist. There has been an even more spirited, and entirely persuasive, response that rejects these evidence-less charges of Tea Party racism for the partisan hogwash they are. [...]
Obamacare Query: If There Is A Right To Refuse …
Insofar as there is a right to refuse medical treatment, is there a corresponding right to refuse to pay for health insurance (or to be fined for not paying for health insurance) whose purpose is to pay for medical treatment? The Supreme Court held in Cruzan v. Director, MDH, 497 U.S. 261 (1990), that “[a] [...]
Half-Baked Higher Education Argument In The Supreme Court
Two days ago I asked, What About Religious Diversity?, referring to the issues in Christian Legal Society v. Martindale just argued before the Supreme Court. For more on that argument and those issues, be sure to see this piece today on Minding The Campus and this even better one.
What About Religious Diversity?
The Supreme Court will hear argument today in Christian Legal Society v. Martindale, which involves the question of whether a public college can refuse to recognize a student religious group (deny it access to student activity fees, prohibit it from sending email notices to students and staff, etc.) if the group requires voting members and [...]
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