Showing posts with label diversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diversity. Show all posts

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

Musings of a genius.    What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional — which means that decency is likely to become less common. The biggest issue in this fall's election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal    ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Sex And Race Equality

Inside the values of sex and race equality.      There are several race and sex issues that need addressing. Let's look at a few of them with an ear to these questions: Should we insist upon equal treatment of people by race and sex or tolerate differences in treatment? And just how equal are people by race and sex in the first place? According   ... MORE

Angry Parents Crush Race-Quota Revival

by Steven Greenhut.      When my family moved from northwest Ohio to pricey Southern California, we could afford an entry level house but couldn’t also spring for private-school tuition for the kids. So we scoured the test-score databases, looking for those neighborhoods where home values were reasonable and public schools were tops.        ... MORE

NYC Mayor To Close City Schools For Muslim Holidays

Political correctness run amok.     New York Mayor Bill De Blasio will close city schools for two Muslim holidays and the Lunar New Year. The New York Daily News reported: New York City is moving to close school for two Muslim holidays and the Lunar New Year — but Mayor de Blasio isn’t so sure about the Hindu festival Diwali. But he said he’d move     ...  MORE

Political Correctness Is Destroying Corporate America

by Steve Tobak.Why Christmas is Destroying Corporate America.” That’s right. A well-known blogger really tried to make that argument on a very popular website three years ago. Unfortunately, my blog was also on that site at the time. I remember thinking: Crap, there goes the neighborhood … and my credibility. Then again, the woman     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Re-education At George Mason

All cultures are NOT equal.        This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - The Mindset Of The Left (Part 3)

A relentless quest for more government intrusions.     The fundamental problem of the political left seems to be that the real world does not fit their preconceptions. Therefore they see the real world as what is wrong, and what needs to be changed, since apparently their preconceptions cannot be wrong. A never-ending source of     ... MORE

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.: Justice Thomas Echos JFK

Quotas and affirmative action cause nothing but trouble.  For four decades the American people have been perplexed by “affirmative action,” “quotas,” and all the circumlocutions that have accumulated around them. Reading about them is painful. Living with them is worse. What has the Supreme Court trying been trying to tell us with  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Unasked & Unanswered Questions

Contempt for liberty by progressives.   Grutter v. Bollinger was the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the University of Michigan Law School's racial admissions policy. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the majority, said the U.S. Constitution "does not prohibit the Law School's narrowly tailored use of race in      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Words That Replace Thought

In doing so, they turn smart people into morons.  If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, “diversity” should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don’t need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic, when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity. The very idea of testing this   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Academic Cesspools

On prying open closed minds.    Over the past 10 years, I have written columns variously titled "Academic Cesspools," "Academic Dishonesty," "The Shame of Higher Education," "Academic Rot" and "Indoctrination of Our Youth." Therefore, I was not surprised by David Feith's April 5th Wall Street Journal article, "The Golf Shot Heard Round the Academic World." ... MORE