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Byron Matthews, a sociologist retired from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a partner in an educational software company, lives near Santa Fe, NM.

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Nothing new here

Breitbart hits NAACP with promised video of racism

The video is interesting only for showing the hypocrisy of the NAACP, which has been foolishly throwing the raaacism epithet at the Tea Party folks.

Otherwise, what's shown in the video is just standard-issue affirmative action: Limited resources are refused to a white applicant, so they can be preferentially awarded to minority applicants instead. No different than squeezing out white applicants by favoring minorities for college admissions, fire department jobs, etc.

The reality is that we have reached the sad point where NOT allocating by race -- going strictly by relevant test scores, or some other race-blind selection mechanism -- is considered raaacist. Once the 14th Amendment got interpreted as applying to groups, this kind of anti-meritocratic nonsense that sacrifices equal protection of the individual on the altar of group identity and grievance, was the inevitable result. The Orwellian notion of race neutrality as raaacism is simply the social policy imperative that's fully implied by the identity politics of entitlement.

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