I think the Gratz ruling forbade quotas while Grutter encourages a “critical mass”. What’s the difference between a “quota” and a “critical mass?” Probably not much. Maybe a quota is a specified percentage like 12% whereas a “critical mass” is what the (AnyUniversity) faculty understands to be about 12%. I guess quotas aren’t as bad if you don’t call them quotas.

I remember reading somewhere that “Law is the intersection of language and power”. These judges are really only doing what judges have always done - bending language to suit the task at hand. If the word doesn’t fit the concept just assign a new meaning. Case in point would be the Massachussetts Supreme Courts redefinition of “marriage”. It’s just frightening how fast these “learned” folks are to embrace untested and (in my opinion) unworkable social engineering projects.

I think they’re also forgetting that there is a good portion of the population who are none too impressed with these developments. Might we be a majority? I hope the thought police will not beat down my door for suggesting that we might be a White majority. The “culture of resentment” argument I guess. Resentment is appropriate.

In pursuance of the stricter posting policy that was urged on me the other day by one of our participants, I am no longer going to permit people to post at VFR using ridiculous names like “Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein II.” This website is not a place for people to play head games or indulge their childish idiosyncracies, but a place to have intelligent discussion toward developing a traditionalist conservatism. Use of names such as the above suggests a lack of sincerity and seriousness on the part of the poster. I will give Herr Frankenstein one chance to clean up his act.

“Baron von Schnauzer”? Of course I’m kidding. I am at task of dreaming up an appropriate pseudonym..

“Critical mass” is what you get when the component parts of a nuclear bomb are imploded together to begin the fission process and explosion. It is an interesting comment on the psychology of the affirmative action reverse-racist types that they seem fixated on this phrase.

I like the switch from “quota” to “critical mass.” Quota suggests economic necessity while critical mass suggests impending nuclear explosion.

Mr. Levine and I are on the same wavelength. I did not see his post until I sent in mine.

Mr. Levine and Thrasy have both raised the issue of the appropriation of the term “critical mass” from nuclear warfare. A subconscious slip on the part of liberals, perhaps? When critical mass was reached inside “fat man” as it hurtled down over the city of Nagasaki, the city was destroyed. What a curious choice of wording.

The phrase “critical mass” has long since been separated from its nuclear origins. It simply means the critical amount of something at which some new event becomes possible, or at which some crisis will occur. I don’t see the irony here that others do.