August 7, 2009, 3:48 pm
I have never gotten as bent out of shape by reverse discrimination charges as have many Conservatives. If private organizations, for whatever reasons, choose to relax standards to let certain groups into their businesses or universities in larger numbers, so be it. I find it outrageous that this is considered “progressive” when done in favor of certain races, and “racist and evil” when done entirely symmetrically in favor other other races, but I am still all in favor of letting private organizations set their own admissions or hiring standards. Public organizations, of course, are held to a different standard, and my reading of “equal protection” has always been that standards really should not vary across races.
That being said, I found this amazing. For the reasons stated above, I am not ready to get up in arms about it, but I do think the extent of the asymmetry in standards is much greater than most people would guess.
March 24, 2009, 11:21 am
Here is a real journalistic triumph — the story of a multi-party conflict in which I immediately dislike absolutely everyone in the story on all sides of the conflict, up to and including the jury and the third parties quoted. Via Overlawyered.
Update: I failed to make clear that what really makes the article special is that the writer herself is at least as bad as everyone involved. She writes in the first paragraph, “If you are black, you probably call the act of disciplining a child with corporal punishment ‘a whupping.’” Really? What’s next, is she going to tell us that they all like watermelon too? Is this kind of blanket unsupported supposition about the habits of a particular race really in the the Chicago Sun-Times style manual on how to open a news feature? I grew up in Texas and “getting a whupping” was a term favored right across racial lines. Anyway, I gotta go now and chase some varmints away from my cement pond out back.
Update #2: I just got an email that said “If you are white, you probably trade jars of Grey Poupon out the windows of your Rolls Royce.” LOL.
