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2017-08-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Thomas Sowell Perfectly Predicted How The Left Will Defend Affirmative Action

[Daily Wire] The Trump Justice Department recently announced to its civil rights division through an internal memo that it would begin "investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions." The Left responded by shamelessly insisting that Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted to promote the enshrinement of white nationalism in admissions processes.

Kristen Clarke, the president of the liberal Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, insisted even challenging the notion of Affirmative Action "could invite a lot of chaos and unnecessarily create hysteria among colleges and universities who may fear that the government may come down on them for their efforts to maintain diversity on their campuses."

I cannot help but reflect on these wise words from Thomas Sowell: "Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true, but many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly."

The black Hoover Institution economist has spent years proving the vitriolic language and policies of the Left have disproportionately hurt minorities’ socioeconomic wellbeing across the country and around the globe.

Now the DOJ has challenged Affirmative Action due to empirical evidence proving it damages majority and minority groups alike. One recent Princeton University study revealed that Affirmative Action policies gave black students a bonus of 230 points on SAT scores based on the 1600 scale. Meanwhile, Asian applicants were penalized 50 points. Despite the facts, the Left is in a panic.

Clarke argues that the Civil Rights Division was "created and launched to deal with the unique problem of discrimination faced by our nation’s most oppressed minority groups," revealing that the leftist concept of "intersectionality" has crept into institutions obligated to protect the civil rights of all peoples. Yet, it is proven affirmative action disproportionately affects Asian and Jewish communities.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 If Trump or Sessions cannot fire these asswipes in the 'Civil Rights' Division, why can't they be reassigned elsewhere, like downtown Milwaukee?

Posted by Raj 2017-08-10 00:49|| 2017-08-10 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Leftards are Lamarkists.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-10 02:25|| 2017-08-10 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Sowell is an American Hero.

Posted by newc 2017-08-10 02:29|| 2017-08-10 02:29|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 Leftards are Lamarkists.

I'd be OK with that if they would settle for cutting off their own tails and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

Posted by SteveS 2017-08-10 04:43|| 2017-08-10 04:43|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem, SteveS, they're more interested in cutting off our balls.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-10 05:10|| 2017-08-10 05:10|| Front Page Top

#6 So stopping discrimination based on race is white nationalism?

Is this an admission of demparty black nationalism?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-08-10 07:11|| 2017-08-10 07:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Is this an admission of demparty black nationalism?

No, BP, it is an admission of demparty racism of the lowered expectations kind. To dems blacks are basically incapable of succeeding without their (the lefts) benevolence.

Posted by AlanC 2017-08-10 08:37|| 2017-08-10 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 #1 why can't they be reassigned elsewhere, like downtown Milwaukee? Or the South side of Chicago? We don't want to discriminate. We've got a lot of Dem lefty-created parasites in this country (sarc).

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-10 08:54|| 2017-08-10 08:54|| Front Page Top

#9 We've got a lot of Dem lefty-created parasites in this country....

'Dem parasite'.... only slightly redundant.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-10 08:58|| 2017-08-10 08:58|| Front Page Top

#10 I could swear I typed "Dem lefty-created paradise." My spell-checker must have just corrected it. None-the-less, the two words are redundant in this context.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-10 09:49|| 2017-08-10 09:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Another SCOTUS debacle when a 'temporary' measure to address past wrongs becomes multi-generational SOP. They knew it was in direct contradiction to the 14th Amendment, but suspended it 'temporarily'. Now its an entitlement standing against the written law.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-10 10:19|| 2017-08-10 10:19|| Front Page Top

#12 they're more interested in cutting off our balls.

And they're surprised at the WASP sperm count drop!

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-10 11:14|| 2017-08-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#13 why can't they be reassigned elsewhere, like downtown Milwaukee?

Parts of downtown Milwaukee are quite nice....during the daytime.

Then there's the serious rise in carjacking at controlled intersections near the freeway entrances. Local LibRag newspapers don't report on that much, though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-08-10 12:10|| 2017-08-10 12:10|| Front Page Top

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