Make no mistake: Her dissent is not a vanguard of the innocent and helpless. It is instead a call to empower privileged elites, who will ‘tell us [what] is required to level the playing field’ among castes and classifications that they alone can divine…
This is the best one paragraph I have ever read that encapsulates the follie of AA
Yes, that too. The racial classifications those people use are very irrational: the "Asian-American/Pacific Islander" class, for instance, only makes sense if you're looking at people's genetic origins way back in 10,000 BC or so, while at the same time the "Hispanic" category includes both pureblooded Western Europeans whose ancestors happened to settle in Mexico or Argentina, as well as and indigenous Nahua, Maya, and Quechua people who speak Spanish as a second language, and whose genetic and cultural heritage is completely different. And then of course you've got to remember that a lot of the seats reserved for the "Black" category end up going to recent immigrants from Africa, not to the descendants of the slaves whose original mistreatment is supposed to justify the whole system.
Of course not all categories of people will succeed equally well under a colorblind government; the main virtue of a colorblind government is that it gives each generation a solid incentive to work hard and make their situation better and not worse, unlike the alternative regimes - segregation and coercive equity - which are both harmful in their own ways.
CT quote from his response to Jackson's dissent.
Make no mistake: Her dissent is not a vanguard of the innocent and helpless. It is instead a call to empower privileged elites, who will ‘tell us [what] is required to level the playing field’ among castes and classifications that they alone can divine…
This is the best one paragraph I have ever read that encapsulates the follie of AA
Yes, that too. The racial classifications those people use are very irrational: the "Asian-American/Pacific Islander" class, for instance, only makes sense if you're looking at people's genetic origins way back in 10,000 BC or so, while at the same time the "Hispanic" category includes both pureblooded Western Europeans whose ancestors happened to settle in Mexico or Argentina, as well as and indigenous Nahua, Maya, and Quechua people who speak Spanish as a second language, and whose genetic and cultural heritage is completely different. And then of course you've got to remember that a lot of the seats reserved for the "Black" category end up going to recent immigrants from Africa, not to the descendants of the slaves whose original mistreatment is supposed to justify the whole system.
Of course not all categories of people will succeed equally well under a colorblind government; the main virtue of a colorblind government is that it gives each generation a solid incentive to work hard and make their situation better and not worse, unlike the alternative regimes - segregation and coercive equity - which are both harmful in their own ways.
Too me, it's simple.
AA is another form of control the "elites" wish to impose upon us "lessers"