I was struck by the parallels between recent The Claremont Independent story about President Trombley's goals of racial quotas and CMC Professor Frederick Lynch's experience at Pomona College.
I quote Professor Lynch on p. 96-97 of Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? (Contemporary Issues Series)
Once, for example, I was informed by a plainly discomfited chairman that I had lost a position at Sweet Briar College strictly because I was male. On another occasion the department chairman at Pomona College told me that they only sociologist he could hire was black. On yet a third occasion, Occidental abruptly canceled an interview, later notifying me (and several other candidates) that it had hired a female "native of Jamaica."
How awful. Yet another human face that affirmative action/reverse discrimination tragically ignores.
I shudder to wonder how many outstanding students we turned down this year for no other reason than the color of their skin.
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2 comments:
Charles this is so insightful! Discrimination exists- we need civil rights! But not for minorities, it's white protestant males are the ones being targeted. If only more people understood natural rights!
Actually, Matt, I take the position that discrimination is wrong is wrong is wrong.
I don't believe that we need to give scholarships for white males anymore than I believe we need to give scholarships for blacks and Latinos.
There once was a country that tried to be proportional with the number of a certain ethnic/religious group. There were just too many Jews in the academias. It had to be representative.
The country was Nazi Germany and when those pesky Jews didn't go away and tolerate their discrimination, Hitler saw to it.
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