Hey what do you use to power the Poll?

Spiderpoll, http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/11144.html . It’s a simple php script that doesn’t automate anything—to set up a new poll you have to edit 4 files—but it works and it’s not hard to customize the display.

replace it with a system of free association and meritocratic rule.

“Free association” sounds like “no affirmative action or antidiscrimination rules for private organizations.” “Meritocratic rule” sounds like “civil servants chosen by merit system.” Is that what you have in mind?

Race-based affirmative action and racial quotas should be abolished across the board. However, I do think that “affirmative action” for male heads of household should be the law in government and encouraged in business.

I’m not sure about abolishing all so-called “equal opportunity rules”. ISTM that our massive government bureaucracies should be prohibited by law from systematically discriminating by race (which, today, would mean discriminating against whites).

Businesses should be free to hire and promote whomever they please for whatever reasons they please, but as I said, should be encouraged to hire and promote male heads of household.

Why male heads of household? Isn’t that sexist? And why not include white male heads of household to make up for the past 30 years or so of state-sanctioned anti-white discrimination?

Of course it is sexist. And it has nothing to do with making up for anything. The point is that giving preference to male heads of household is a way of giving preference to the family unit: a legitimate public policy goal.

Well, if you’re in the business of promoting (or reinstating, as the case may be) a certain class of human being, I don’t see why you should stop at sex. Why limit yourself? In recent decades white males have suffered a double loss to their position in society, first as males and then as whites.

And no, I’m not completely serious about this proposal, but I think it shows how silly and out-of-hand this affirmative action business can be.

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It seems that liberalism has thoroughly corrupted our thought and language. I would suggest that insofar as male heads of household are viewed merely as “a certain class of human being” among many, destined only to be a winner or loser in class politics, the triumph of liberalism is complete.

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Because sex and race are entirely different quantities. The former is fixed, permanent, and transcendant, with immutable spiritual and moral imperatives; the latter is dynamic, transient, and the result of historical accidents. There are no moral imperatives attached to “race”.

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So what? As my mother used to say, two wrongs don’t make a right.

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Agreed.