Many liberals think our government is racist, but not in the way John Stossel means:
I think affirmative action is racism — and therefore wrong. If a private school like Bucknell wants to have such policies to increase diversity, fine. But government-imposed affirmative action is offensive. Equality before the law means government should treat citizens equally.
But it doesn’t. Our racist government says that any school receiving federal tax dollars, even if only in the form of federal aid to students, must comply with affirmative action rules, and some states have enacted their own policies.
Advocates of affirmative action argue it is needed because of historic discrimination. Maybe that was true in 1970, but it’s no longer true. Affirmative action is now part of the minority special privilege machine, an indispensable component of which is perpetual victimhood.
Affirmative action, like environmentalism, is a liberal religion designed to aid liberals in their quest to control lives and accumulate power. Whatever original purpose it had, it’s served that. Now it only serves to perpetuate racial grievances and produce friction.
