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From Investor’s Business Daily, Many Ideas From The 1960s Now Look Threadbare And Foolish by Victor Davis Hanson.

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Affirmative action and enforced “diversity” were originally designed to give a boost to those who were victims of historical bias from the supposedly oppressive white-majority society. Is that still true, a half-century after these assumptions became institutionalized?

So who exactly should receive privileges in job-hiring or college admissions — the newly arrived Pakistani immigrant, or the third-generation, upper-middle-class Mexican-American who does not speak Spanish? Both, or neither?

What about someone of half-Jamaican ancestry? What about the children of Attorney General Eric Holder or self-proclaimed Native American Sen. Elizabeth Warren? What about the poor white grandson of the Oklahoma diaspora who is now a minority in California?

If Latinos are underrepresented at the University of California, Berkeley, is it because of the stubborn institutional prejudices that also somehow have been trumped by Asian-Americans enrolling at three times their numbers in the state’s general population? Are women so oppressed by men that they graduate from college in higher numbers than their chauvinist male counterparts?

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HKO

Bureaucracies defy solutions because solutions threaten the existence of the bureaucracies.

What is presented as a social problem is used to expand government power.  Rather than admit their mission is accomplished they redefine the mission to justify their existence.  There are few things as permanent as a temporary government program.

Tips to Mark Perry at Carpe Diem

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