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The infinite field of play for racial preferences
I don’t have direct information on this, but someone told me that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision two years ago gave the University of Washington Law School the right to practice racial preferences to achieve a “critical mass” not just of Asian students as a general category but of Cambodians and Chinese. With every nonwhite immigrant being permitted into America and every child born of such immigrants, we are increasing the number of persons who are recipients of affirmative action and racial preferences. Members of these immigrant groups do not have the slightest hint of a coloration of a justification for “redress of past discrimination.” They are newcomers in this society. And yet we stand around like Eloi letting this happen, year after year. Has Michelle Malkin, that “stalwart” foe of “immigration,” as Andrew McCarthy describes her, ever said a word about this? More immigration means more preferences for more groups. Picture when the country is 50 percent nonwhite, which will mean that 50 percent of the inhabitants of American (citizenship having become irrelevant by that point) will be receiving racial preferences. Picture when the country is 60 percent nonwhite, and 60 percent of American residents are receiving racial preferences. And that’s not counting the white women, which would mean that 80 percent of the country would be receiving preferences.
There’s yet another angle on this. East Asians—particularly Chinese since they are a high-IQ group—are described as the model minority, high-achieving, self-sufficient, entrepreneurial, and so on. Has anyone heard of the Chinese-American community rejecting the award of racial preferences, whether in student admissions or government grants? No. The vaunted Chinese are just as happy to receive unearned benefits based on their nonwhiteness as all the other nonwhite group are. Email entry |