On Another Plane, Everyone Is High-Fiving George Orwell Over Affirmative Action

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by Smitty

Legal Insurrection points to the abject farce of Affirmative action. First, the Daily Caller:

This fall, the Supreme Court faces an even bigger test of its determination to support equality when it hears Schuette v. Michigan Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, a case challenging the right of a state (in this case, Michigan) to pass a constitutional ban on race preferences, or affirmative action, in its public institutions.

Professor Jacobson summarizes:

That’s right folks, the Supreme Court will decide whether prohibiting racism is, in effect, racist.
I have bemoaned the pernicious effects of race-based preferences here many times. The Schuette case demonstrates how the racial preference industry has turned everything on its head.
To be non-racist will get you accused of being racist.

Let this be a further lesson, as if one were needed: homo bureaucratus in general, and the Raaaaacism Industrial Complex in particular, are going to cling bitterly to their parasitic grip on phoney-baloney jobs. In defense of these cretins, it beats finding real work.

Just note their imperviousness to common sense, and willingness to argue that “up is the new down” rather than confess the vacuousness of their existence. After all, Affirmative Action is an importan vote-buying scheme. Why would anyone sacrifice power, even if dirty?

Orwell, you nailed it, buddy.

18 comments

  1. To use another 1984 analogy, the Civil Rights struggle has been nothing but a war against East Asia for some time now. It has always existed and will always exist, victory notwithstanding.

  2. Do you mean “Plane” or “Planet”, Smitty? This is important, because I’ll need a good alibi when the Thought Police bust in my front door.

  3. Study after study has shown the primary beneficiaries of AA in college admissions are the children of minority parents of above average or high income, many professionals, who otherwise couldn’t qualify. Very few slots go to anyone from lower middle economic classes or below – anyone who might conceivably be thought to “suffer the effects of discrimination.”

    It’s kinda like the way Yusef Jackson won an Anheuser-Busch distributorship in Illinois with no money or qualifications, right out of college. Coincidentally, Daddy Jesse decided about that time not to look into AB hiring and contracting practices.

    Oh, well, well, well – you can never tell! http://youtu.be/19qve36RSDY

  5. Phony-baloney jobs?

    I didn’t get a harrumph out of that guy.

    (you watch your ass…)

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