James Taranto on Diversity ‘Sham’
The Wall Steet Journal’s James Taranto, who I met a couple years ago when we (and other bloggers) had dinner with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, weighs in on liberals’ obsession with diversity. He cites Grutter v. Bollinger, a case in which the Supreme Court barred racial quotas but allowed some racial considerations in admissions.
Without offering proof or even a logically sound rationale for the so-called educational benefits of diversity, the court decided that racial discrimination was okay after all, despite what anyone claimed during the civil rights movement.
“But there is reason to doubt whether ‘diversity,’ as practiced by American higher education today, has any educational benefits at all–never mind whether those benefits are sufficient to justify discrimination,” Taranto writes. “Whatever its benefits in theory, diversity in practice is often anti-intellectual, replacing reasoned debate with ritualized expressions of phony emotion.”
Read the full article here.
