Saturday, May 5, 2018

On the Fact that Even Though Ezra Klein Has Recently Admitted that Affirmative Action Has More Than Likely Caused a Mismatch Problem for Countless Minority Students (Black Students at Cornell and MIT, for Example, Are In the Top 10% of Math Students In the Country but Are In the Bottom 10% at These Two Schools) but Instead of Recalibrating this Top-Down and Interventionist Approach of His, He Advocates Doubling-Down On Brain-Dead and Fucking with These Minorities EVEN MORE (the Opposite of What Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, and Jack Kennedy Advocated, In Other Words)

And what simpletons like Klein further fail to recognize is that blacks in America had actually been making solid progress prior to the civil rights/Great Society/affirmative action era (literacy climbing from less than 5% after the Civil War to over 50% by 1900, the poverty rate declining from 87% in 1940 to 47% in 1960, etc.) and that it wasn't until do-gooders like him started fucking with the black community that these pathologies started to emerge. But hey, when the only tools that you have are hubris and faux government benevolence, I guess that doubling-down just comes naturally (though, yes, I would be far more prone to accept the advice of the Manhattan Institute's Jason Riley when he echoed out in one his recent books, "Please, Stop Helping"). 

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