Comments on: Fight Over Racial Preferences at IHE http://nasblog.org/2009/11/03/fight-over-racial-preferences-at-ihe/ The National Association of Scholars: For reasoned scholarship in a free society Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: PAthena http://nasblog.org/2009/11/03/fight-over-racial-preferences-at-ihe/#comment-145 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:10:41 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=419#comment-145 Government-enforced racial preferences (racial discrimination) are not only against the law (Civil Rights Act of 1964) but a violation of the American Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment. Fundamental to “all men are created equal” is that individuals be judged in their actions on the basis of their individual actions. This principle goes all the way back to Plato’s Republic. The “affirmative action” ploy – which Hubert Humphrey was warned against when he pushed for the Civil Rights Act (he said that he would ‘eat his hat’ if the provisions and the EEOC established to enforce it would lead to racial (and other) quotas – but he never ate his hat. The “vested interests” which Humphrey created, push for these quotas, regardless of their absurdity and their attack on the individual. Thomas Sowell is good on this.

]]> By: Reader http://nasblog.org/2009/11/03/fight-over-racial-preferences-at-ihe/#comment-70 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:56:58 +0000 http://nasblog.org/?p=419#comment-70 > I wish the people who keep demanding racial preferences at elite schools would explain is what is so darned important about going to one of those “elite” schools.

I think George Leef has hit on one of the deep-seated issues behind all of these controversies. 90% of it is all about envy. The people obsessed with preferences are, plain and simple, envious of those who went to what they consider “better” schools. It’s unfortunate that they aren’t more concerned with getting the best education they can find wherever they may be, rather than obsessing about someone else’s imagined social status. By being obsessed with social status, they create their own low status.

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