More on Affirmative Action

Laughably idiotic comment: "In the private sector, affirmative action is strictly voluntary and not imposed by government but instead by the market. It rarely involves mandates."

Perhaps you'd like to learn about this little externality called "threat of litigation"...

Yeah, private AA is driven by market concerns. Sure. That's why foreign firms in Asia are falling over themselves trying to recruit American minorities to their senior management echelons.

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K Street on the Obama Youth and the "Power of Change"

Larry Parker writes: "And, with classic irony, while talk of boxcars to Mexico rages on talk radio, the people who WILL get to see a truly multiracial America (those your and my age and younger, Rod) generally -- generally -- welcome it. Why do you think Barack Obama's campaign is so fueled by young voters?"

Um, because he is a blank slate onto which they (and you) can project your fantasies? African Americans can see an Obama win as a victory over whitey, while young whites like yourself (oh, sorry, forgot your grandmother, who I'm sure thought of herself as full-blooded Cherokee) can simultaneously think an Obama win will cause crime rates, and demands for quotas and set-asides, to plummet, as the entire black community becomes like the Cosby family on TV. Overnight! Just like how the Muslims will suddenly love us because Obama's grandmother lived in a mud shack. That's the power of Change!

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Cheering Rod Dreher's Decreasing Interest in Clerical Homosexuality

Like the others I have to offer Rod sincere congratulations on a successful blog. I agree that Rod seems mellower these days, less angry--I think we've only had two or three posts on gay priests out of hundreds so far in the still-young 2008, whereas if you went back to the archives about this time in 2006 or last year, clerical homosexuality was to this blog what Hitler is to the History Channel.

I hope the election, as it unfolds today and till November, doesn't unhinge him--but I have my fears. In a way the failure of the Huckabee campaign to put up numbers has sort of called Rod's bluff: that he as a pundit can identify (if not claim to actually speak for) this vast electoral longing for socially conservative economic interventionism that is just aching for a leader to come claim the prize. If I had a dime for every time Rod used the phrase "sweet spot" to describe the Huckster's voting demographic, I'd owe millions to the IRS in additional taxes to pay for new middle-class subsidies. But fortunately that electorate is mostly in Rod's head. Even then, as a inner myth it pales next to other pundits' delusions, like Daniel "Americans crave to be more regimented into social hierarchies" Larison, or Frank "the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands if we only elect Obama" Schaeffer.

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