Dude, why is their Harry Potter cover SO much cooler than ours? Not fair!
Great succinct comments from John Hawkins on Affirmative Action:
Let's be totally honest here -- Affirmative Action isn't "fairness for minorities", it's institutionalized racial discrimination against white people and it is just as morally repugnant as Jim Crow laws were even though in all fairness it has nowhere near the same level of impact. It's too bad that there so many Americans who support racist policies as long as they're aimed at the right race.
If the supporters of Affirmative Action believed in rewarding people based on merit instead of on the color of their skin, our country would be much better off. Instead we live in a bizarro world where Conservatives who believe in a color blind world are called racists by liberals who believe in discriminating against people based on skin color. That may be twisted, but until justice is done and Affirmative Action is ended once and for all, that's the reality we'll have to live with.
I never heard anyone comment on Michigan University's point system this way: What if, instead of givng "bonus points" to minorities based on their skin color, we instead docked white people 20 points just for being white? It's the same exact thing mathematically and logically, but I think it better illustrates the descrimination. Maybe people don't have a problem with giving some people a "leg up". I mean, they're being nice people by throwing in those extra points. But look at it the way I just illustrated and tell me that's not wrong.
I had a dream that someone was telling me "But you can't discriminate against someone based on their race, that's wrong!" and I replied, "But the Supreme Court says you can."
I'm pretty sure that was a dream, and I'm pretty sure that's basically how it went.
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
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