The Perversity of Equality, Progressive Style

Much has been written about the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the right of the people of Michigan to require that there be no preferences shown in hiring, contracting or college admissions to the state university based upon religion, national origin, race or gender.  Nevertheless, one of the latest such efforts, by one of America's most race conscious columnists, Eugene Robinson, still struck me as surprising in its absurdity.  The thesis that Robinson advances is that by outlawing preferences based upon race (Robinson ignores all the other categories), the Supreme Court "stacked the deck" against minorities.  After all, what could be more racist than outlawing racial discrimination?

For years, I have been writing about the practice of president Obama to believe that something is true or real because he says it is.  In fairness, that is a characteristic of many on the left.  There is no truth and no falsity.  There is no hard and fast reality.  There is only the current reality shaped the way that they describe it.  And it is only in that reality that outlawing racial discrimination in almost the same language as is in the U.S. Constitution could be considered racist.

We are fortunate in that this latest effort to make up down and down up is one which is so clearly transparent.  Only in the precincts of the left would anyone accept such nonsense.  Everyone else applies at least a bit of common sense to the problem and reality comes through.