Friends, my latest article concentrates on two significant legal victories in California courtrooms for the principle of non-discrimination. The California "diversity, equity, and inclusion" gang is seeing red!!! That's good news, but they won't quit that easily. Expect a lot more pressure to ramp up reverse discrimination in the years ahead.
Discriminate, Or Else!
Two recent
victories for the principles of non-racialism and equal treatment –
in California courtrooms, no less – are warming the hearts of
conservatives, and the vast majority of Americans who believe in
fairness and the goal of a colorblind society. These victories,
however, cannot obscure the fact that, increasingly, for the Left,
discrimination is no longer the enemy. It is, in fact, a moral
imperative, and more and more progressives believe that only
(reverse) discrimination can cure “systemic racism” in our
country, and that those who refuse to discriminate should be ground
underfoot.
On
March 30th,
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Jay Ford III ruled
that UCLA accounting professor George Klein could proceed with a
lawsuit
against the university, which had suspended and denounced him for
refusing to grant black students special accommodations in his
classes in the wake of the death of George Floyd in May 2020. Klein
argued that, legally and ethically, it would be wrong to single out
students of a certain race for differential treatment, and, in any
case, a student's skin color, in itself, would not necessarily
determine the degree of trauma they experienced due to Floyd's death
and the subsequent unrest. UCLA had asked that the suit be dismissed,
but Judge Ford decided instead that Klein had provided sufficient
evidence to support his claims. Klein asserts that his suspension was
wrongful and that his reputation and private business interests were
harmed.
On
April 1st,
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Terry Green struck down that state's so-called corporate diversity
law,
which mandated that corporations based in the Golden State had to
include on their corporate boards a specified percentage of people
from “underrepresented communities”, including people of color
and those who identify as LGBT. Hefty fines were prescribed for
corporations in violation of the law. Although Judge Green's ruling
was short on specifics, he suggested that “mandating” quotas for
the “underrepresented” was a bridge too far.
Taken
together, these victories in Los Angeles County courtrooms indicate
that, even in the People's Republic of California, where the
catechism of wokeness is deeply
entrenched
in the political and legal fabric of society, judges sometimes have
the courage to stand against fashionable forms of discrimination.
This is tremendously encouraging and may indicate that leftists will
find it difficult to ignore the clear language of local, state, and
federal laws, which in almost all cases prohibit differential
treatment based on race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, or
gender identity. Much as progressives would like to carve out
exceptions for discrimination practiced by “the good guys”, i.e.
them, our legal system recognizes no such distinctions – and,
hopefully, when such distinctions are inserted into the law by
leftist legislators, they will fall afoul of other, more fundamental
legal and constitutional principles, like equal treatment. With any
luck, in fact, the Supreme Court will soon find all
racial and sex- and gender-based preferences unconstitutional,
putting an end to this debate once and for all.
Legal victories, however, no matter how high up the judicial food
chain they may extend, will not alter the fact that, morally and
culturally, discrimination has already been normalized, even
valorized, for a significant portion of the U.S. population –
namely, for virtually anyone and everyone who calls himself or
herself a Democrat or a progressive. The (re)popularization of
discrimination as a tool to promote positive social change and the
“equitable” redistribution of society's rewards is an extremely
disturbing trend, and one which legal sanctions alone will not
succeed in stamping out.
What
should be done? Among other measures, conservatives must resolutely
refuse to play the woke game of measuring social progress and
“equity” by mathematical means, and of pretending that the
achievement of greater representation for people of color, women, and
members of the LGBT community in
itself
makes our institutions, or our country as a whole, better.
On
the contrary, only the fostering of an ethic of non-discrimination,
and a consistent commitment to judge each and every American
according to his or her individual merits, as
most Americans clearly prefer,
will allow us to fulfill the promise of America for everyone, while
at the same time avoiding the acrimony and mistrust that are the
bitter fruit of identity politics.
To
quote Chief Justice John Roberts, “The
way to stop discrimination
on the basis of race is to stop discriminating
on the basis of race.” It's about time that we lived up to our
ideals as a nation and followed this excellent advice.
Dr.
Nicholas L. Waddy is an Associate Professor of History at SUNY Alfred
and blogs at: www.waddyisright.com.
He appears on the Newsmaker Show on WLEA 1480/106.9.
And here it is at World Net Daily:
https://www.wnd.com/2022/04/repopularization-discrimination-must-end/
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In other news, it looks like Russia is preparing to unleash a major offensive in eastern Ukraine, but exactly where and with what goals in mind is unclear.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61023869
My main man Pat Buchanan is sounding alarm bells about a predicted multi-year conflict in Ukraine, which doesn't seem to faze the anti-Russia hawks in the West, but would be devastating to the Ukrainian and Russian peoples -- and could ultimately bring about a second Cold War, or even a hot war in Eastern Europe.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/04/08/who_wins_who_loses_gen_milleys_long_war_147447.html
Believe it or not, there are actually people in the West willing to demonstrate in the streets in favor of Russia and Putin. What's even more incredible is that they are allowed to do so in Germany, which doesn't cherish free speech nearly as much as we do in the USA.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/demonstrations-germany-ukraine-pro-russia/2022/04/10/id/1065108/
The pressure to conform to leftist ideology, and to virtue-signal 24/7, is intense, especially for those who move in well-educated, well-heeled circles. Apparently this pressure is even infiltrating the practice of psychotherapy. Egads!
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/anxiety-mental-health-cancel-culture-rcna23111
There's a case to be made that the FBI ginned up the supposed kidnapping/murder plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in October 2020 with the intention of affecting the outcome of the presidential election. There's also a case to be made that there never was such a plot. Incroyable, you say? Well, timing is everything, and we all know that, for the lefties, preventing the reelection of DJT was a sacred trust...
https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/09/fbi-kidnapping-caper-was-flagrant-election-interference/
Finally, don't think for a second that radicals on the Left have given up on their goal of cleansing American democracy -- legally and officially -- of those who espouse "insurrectionist" views. It remains to be seen whether the federal courts will nip these efforts in the bud, as they should.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/8/liberals-push-legal-effort-block-republican-insurr/
