Diversity

Diversity and Western Civilization

August 11, 2011

“Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!”, uttered by Jesse Jackson and a bunch of equally clueless Stanford students. So far, the civilization created by the West has been the best. The greatest. Who knows what civilizations the future will bring? William H. Young, former George H.W. Bush appointee and author of [...]

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Roger Clegg on Corporate ‘Diversity’

August 4, 2011

The victory of the civil rights movement was the dismantling of government-mandated and –sponsored discrimination. The non-legal battle was to dismantle stereotypes about blacks and to promote the individual. To be judged by character rather than by race: that’s the ideal to which people strived. In 2011, it’s as though time looped back on itself. [...]

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63% Oppose Race- and Sex-Based Preferences

July 28, 2011

If only this poll were part of a national vote. Every state in the Union would have to cease and desist treating people differently based on race or sex in government employment, contracting, and education. No more lowered standards for minorities, no more discrimination against whites, East Asians, men, or anyone else. Work history and [...]

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Heather Mac Donald: ‘Diversity’ Trumps Academics

July 27, 2011

When did skin-deep diversity become so revered, so coveted? It must have been long before my time. The seeds of it most likely fell to the ground sometime in the 1970s, after “affirmative action” didn’t work out quite as planned. While California flirts with bankruptcy, the state’s public universities are spending money to create make-work [...]

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Do Honor Codes Disparately Impact Blacks?

July 22, 2011

John Rosenberg of Discriminations wrote a follow-up piece at Minding the Campus to a previous article about a black University of Virginia law student named Johnathan Perkins. Perkins falsely claimed he was the subject of racial profiling and abuse by campus police. He said he made it up to “bring attention to … police misconduct.” [...]

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Roger Clegg on Michigan Preferences Case

July 19, 2011

“A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit this month struck down Michigan’s ban on government discrimination and preference on the basis of race, ethnicity, and sex because, it says, the ban violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. “You can’t make this stuff up, folks. That’s right: The people [...]

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Court Won’t Rehear Race-Based Admissions Case

June 22, 2011

In 1997, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that using racial preferences in college admissions even to achieve “diversity” was unconstitutional. Fourteen years later, a three-judge panel of the same court ruled the opposite: racial preferences used in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin are permissible. The [Fisher] panel [...]

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How is athletic ability different from academic ability?

June 15, 2011

In diversity-for-thee-but-not-for-me news, Human Events has posted a video in which the group Exposing Leftists asks college students who support racial preferences in admissions to explain why they don’t support them in athletics. The students support talent- and merit-based athletics, but not talent- and merit-based admissions. One student said he’s opposed to taking better players [...]

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Race Box for Multiracials: Whichever Helps the Most

June 14, 2011

What if you could fill out a college application, or any government form, and there was no “Race” section? That would be progressive, even radical. I wonder if I’ll live to see the day when the government no longer asks the race question. Once upon a time, blacks wondered whether they’d live long enough to [...]

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Roger Clegg on ‘Extremely Unpersuasive’ Preferences Rationale

June 8, 2011

Racial preferences proponent Elizabeth Anderson, professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, seems to understand the double-edged sword of allowing our government the power to make race-based decisions, even if those decisions are designed to benefit racial minorities. She writes in the Chronicle of Higher of Education (emphasis [...]