Tucker looks at the history and results of affirmative action. Highlights include:
“The promise of a meritocratic society is that the most capable people will rise to the positions of the greatest authority. In a meritocracy, for example, you would hire heart surgeons because they’re good at heart surgery, not because of how they look or who their parents are. A meritocracy is the only fair way to run a society, and fairness matters to people, always, everywhere.”
“But there was a political problem with it. If you’ve got a meritocratic society, it’s pretty hard to play race politics because race plays no role in advancement. Individual initiative is what matters. Group interests are irrelevant in a meritocracy.”
“Now, that may sound idyllic to you, it may sound like the kind of country you’d want to live in, but for the democratic party it was a disaster. How do you get your voters to the polls if they’re not racially aggrieved? ”
“Democrats introduced a new concept. They called it ‘affirmative action.’ The idea was to punish or reward Americans based on the color of their skin. Ironically, this is precisely the evil practice that the Civil Rights Movement was designed to abolish. Racial discrimination was unequivocally wrong.”
“Affirmative action is wrong, it’s totally immoral, it’s completely unfair, and now for the first time in years the democratic party is being forced to defend it in public.”
“The Supreme Court is now considering a case about affirmative action in college admissions, at Harvard specifically. Because they understand that their power depends on maintaining the racial spoil system they created, democrats are defending the indefensible with maximum ferocity. Unfortunately for them, it’s not that easy to do. Affirmative action is not only the very definition of racism, it’s also highly embarrassing in its particulars.”
“We have racial segregation under the law in America? That’s what ‘Justice’ Sotomayor just said. Even after Justice Alito corrected her, Sotomayor kept saying it. There’s de jure segregation in 2022. Jim Crowe is still on the books!”
“Okay, this is the society that affirmative action has created. Sonya Sotomayor doesn’t know what de jure means, Ketanji Brown Jackson can’t define what a woman is. It’s hard to imagine a more damning case against affirmative action than its results.”
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