Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Following The Logic Of Race-Based Thinking


Looking to draw attention to what they call the "worst form of bigotry confronting America today," Boston University's College Republicans are circulating an application for a "Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship" that requires applicants be at least 25 percent Caucasian....BU Group Offers White Scholarship, Discover the Networks

Though the 'scholarship' discussed is deliberately inflammatory, and aimed by Boston University College Republicans at exposing the hypocrisy of race-based scholarships generally, it should be regarded as an early warning signal of what will happen, in fact, what must happen if the rule of law is to continue to have meaning. Quotas, diversity goals, and similar, disciminatory efforts to increase the participation of all groups in education and the work have forced current US, state and local law into the untenable position of upholding two diametrically opposed principles: A) equality before the law, or non-discrimination; and B) compensatory bias, or discrimination. The legal system on which our politics and business is based cannot stand holding diametrically opposed principles. And some day, some court, and eventually the Supreme Court will pick one or the other as the precedent for all actions stemming from that principle going forward.

Race-thinking leads to racism. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism


Luther

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