ACLU: Files lawsuit in favor of race- and sex-based discrimination
Posted on December 20, 2006
This is what happens when you care more about group identity politics than the US Constitution.
From the horse’s mouth: ACLU, NAACP File Lawsuit to Allow University of Michigan Admissions Programs to Continue
DETROIT - Filing a lawsuit today on behalf of 19 students, faculty and applicants to the University of Michigan, a coalition of civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, are asking a federal court to declare that the newly passed Proposal 2 has not changed the Supreme Court’s view, stated as recently as 2003, that it is constitutionally permissible for universities to consider race and gender as one factor among many in university admissions.
So, in the ACLU’s world, it’s okay for state actors to confer certain rights and advantages to people based on skin color or whether one stands or sits in the bathroom…if someone’s race or gender is the “right” one? Do I detect a steamin’ plate o’ hypocrisy? Even to use “race or gender as one factor among many” is clearly giving certain people advantages not available to others similarly qualified because of skin pigment or nether equipment. The ACLU should be firmly on the other side here. But should we even expect a sliver of intellectual honesty from the ACLU?
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Whether you support it or not, that has been a valid position for decades.
I disagree with the ACLU on this one though. The voters of Michigan, a pretty diverse state, made it clear they didn’t want to allow racial preference anymore. The ACLU doesn’t have any basis for going directly against that will.
Their position definitely doesn’t match their platform, but you better believe I’m going to quote you if I ever see you come out in favor of racial profiling.
Racial profiling may sometimes be appropriate but it is usually a fairly foolish one. One time it might be appropriate if you are trying to stop racial based gangs from killing each other or innocent civilians.
The two cases are worlds apart. Race truly does have nothing to do with ability to perform in college — culture does, but not race. What will you learn from a person’s pigmentation that their grades, their past, their scores, and their application won’t tell you? I’m mystified.
On the other hand, if you’re a cop on the beat, you don’t have all that information about a potential criminal. All you have is a collection of profiles, which you learn through your own experience or the experiences of others. Added to that, you have only sight or perhaps a few moments of conversation to figure out whether the person is a likely criminal. It should be obvious that you have a much less detailed picture of the target, and thus have to rely upon cruder tools than a college admissions rep.
At what point do you begin worrying about that thing called evidence?