Why Affirmative Action Died, Why Not Sooner?

It was straight up racist. And an abject failure.

“Like every other form of collectivism, racism is a quest for the unearned. It is a quest for automatic knowledge—for an automatic evaluation of men’s characters that bypasses the responsibility of exercising rational or moral judgment—and, above all, a quest for an automatic self-esteem (or pseudo-self-esteem).” Ayn Rand

Like every form of determinism, affirmative action invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Affirmative action negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. (paraphrasing rand on racism).

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Why care about merit? What harm is there in affirmative action programs that reward the less qualified?

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10 Reasons Why Affirmative Action Died

By: Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal, July 14, 2023

The end of affirmative action was inevitable. The only surprise in the Supreme Court’s recent decision was that such intentions gone terribly wrong lasted so long.

First, supporters of racial preferences always pushed back the goal posts for the program’s success. Was institutionalized reverse bias to last 20 years, 60 years, or ad infinitum?

Parity became defined as an absolute equality of result. If “equity” was not obtained, then only institutionalized “racism” explained disparities. And only reverse racism was deemed the cure.

Second, affirmative action was imposed on the back end in adult hiring and college admissions. However, to achieve parity, remediation early at the K-12 school level would have been the only solution.

Yet such intervention was made impossible by teachers unions, the rise of identity politics, and government entitlements. All were opposed to school choice, self-help programs, critiques of cultural impediments, or restrictions on those blanket entitlements.

Third, class, the true barometer of privilege, was rendered meaningless. Surrealism followed. The truly privileged Barack and Michelle Obama as well as Meghan Markle lectured the country on its unfairness—as if they had it far rougher than the impoverished “deplorables” of East Palestine, Ohio.

Fourth, affirmative action supporters could never square the circle of proving that racial prejudices didn’t violate the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the text of the Constitution.

What they were left with was the lame argument that because long ago the 90% white majority had violated their own foundational documents, then such past bad unconstitutional bias could be rectified legitimately by present-day “good” unconstitutional bias.

Fifth, supporters never adequately explained why the sins of prior generations fell on their descendants who grew up in the post-civil rights era.

Nor could they account for why those who had never experienced institutionalized racism, much less Jim Crow apartheid or slavery, were to be compensated collectively for the suffering of long-dead individuals. No wonder 70% of Americans in many polls favored ending affirmative action, including half of African Americans.

Sixth, there never was a “rainbow” coalition of shared non-white victimhood—a concept necessary to perpetuate the premise of white privilege, supremacy, and rage, so integral to race-based reverse discrimination. More than a dozen ethnicities earn more per capita than do whites.

Asians have been subject to coerced internment, immigration restrictions, and zoning exclusions. Yet on average, they do better than whites economically and enjoy lower suicide rates and longer life expectancies.

The arguments for affirmative action never explained why Asians and other minorities who faced discrimination outperformed the majority white population. As a result, affirmative action ended up discriminating against Asians on the premise they were too successful.

Seventh, no one ever explained when affirmative action was to apply. Blacks, for example, were vastly “overrepresented” in merit-based professional football and basketball. Yet no one demanded “proportional representation” to address such “disparate impact,” despite underrepresentation of all other demographics.

Yet if blacks were “underrepresented” in baseball, then reparatory measures were supposed to address that fact—even if Latino players were “overrepresented” and whites “underrepresented” as well. No one in our race-obsessed culture, of course, objected that white males died at twice their demographics in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Eighth, in our increasingly intermarried mass-immigration society, few could adjudicate who was what, or much less what standard gave one racial preference. In lunatic fashion, pink, blond Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., became Harvard’s first “Native American” law professor due to her “high cheekbones.” Light-skinned Latinos were considered marginalized, while some darker Italians or Greeks were not.

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Snowedin

9 months ago

People who were brainwashed started to wake up when the false ‘White Privilege’, started to become an issue, and that the lower intelligent, colored people, were given brownie points, for their color and not their achievements. They were also put into colleges and jobs that they could not qualify for, just because of their ethnicity, and nothing more. It was a quota that the companies and colleges needed to meet. It was the dumbing down of America.

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turtlebrat

9 months ago

Reply to  Snowedin

Dumbing down America any way they can is a goal of the commie left. It is an insult to use the bigotry of low expectations for any group.

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teslarules

9 months ago

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teslarules

9 months ago

Reply to  turtlebrat

It began in the early 1960s big time, though it already beginning before 1950.
John Dewey was at the University of Marxigan, in Ann Arbor, Marxigan in the early 20th Century. That was revealed by a great educator, Samuel Blumenfeld.
Reading his books like NEA, Trojan Horse In American Education as well as co-authored book with Alex Newman Crimes of the Educators blew my mind.

HOW JOHN DEWEY USED PUBLIC ‘EDUCATION’ TO SUBVERT LIBERTY
https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-john-dewey-used-public-education-to-subvert-liberty_3116181.html

John Dewey’s Public Schools Replaced Christianity With Collectivist Humanism
https://www.theepochtimes.com/deweys-public-schools-replaced-christianity-with-collectivist-humanism_3121997.html

With help of the schools the USA will become the United States of Amarxica thanks to Dewey, Jimmy Leon Trotsky Carter, William Karl Marx Clinton and Horace Mann to name just a few.

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vinnynewyork

9 months ago

Baracks – the truly Evil man… a Cubam based Marxist anti-American who did all he could to creat racism and unrest. Never acknowledged the nationalities who built America. Worst of all, he’s still there telling puppet, fool Joey how to move. MAGA, and soon,, I pray to the God of all Gods .. we Americans are in trouble, and half the country does not realize it … shocking.

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Denris

9 months ago

If they could not get ahead in the 60 years of AA. Advantage we gave them.It’s time to stop holding others back.

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Eric Arthur Blair

9 months ago

An affirmative action would be stripping Obamao of citizenship and putting Joe Blow in prison.

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Jesse Brogan

9 months ago

The deeper challenge on the political side is that such programs and approaches deny equal representation of American citizens; of even representing the “right” Americans at the expense of the rest of us. It is not just wrong; it is anti-American.

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Gil

9 months ago

It is about time! Prime example of the evils of equalizing is the eight years of that idiot Obama. He had the audacity to say he would “fundamentally change America.” He never had a real job, didn’t authorize any bill, and probably wasn’t even an American citizen. He was elected with 96% of the black vote (normally only about 60%). He was endorsed by Colon Powell, a Republican I would have voted for as a president. Disgusting racism. He really was the crowning blow in our trip to Communism.

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ed

9 months ago

The hair on Hussein’s head is now as white as the coca!ne that he likes so much….

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