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July 12, 2003

Boohabian Projections

You would think that just buying a 120GB disk drive solves all your problems. It just complicates life. Now that I've got more than enough room to put all of my stuff, even redundantly, it's hard for me to know which of the freed up volumes I should use for what purposes.

So I've come across a lot of old Boohabian stuff like this:

I have always primarily advocated affirmative action from the standpoint of integration. What I’ve always said is that in a post-Jim crow society, anything in the mainstream that remains segregated is defacto wrong. So any way you can integrate that is good - even if it means taking black bums off the street and making them heads of Savings and Loan Associations. In short, I support tokenism too. When blacks can destroy the S&L industry and not be blamed because of their race, that is the day America will have reached equality.

Short of that day, any and every effort Americans make to destroy racial ghettoes is good work. Something much more strong than affirmative action is warranted if the myth of racial inferiority is to be destroyed.

Empowerment is the secondary reason I support affirmative action. To the extent that opening doors serves the interests of beneficiaries of affirmative action, that's all good. Even if non-distinct individuals get bumped in a zero sum game. Anyplace that is capable of supporting politics of hardball affirmative action, quotas and targets and other overproductions should continue. As long as this remains a significant minority of affirmative actions, these don't despoil the market.

Diversity is the third reason I support affirmative action. Ethnics *are* different, and there *are* no objective standards by which all Americans can or should be judged. As long as affirmative action doesn't create situations like that surrounding David Cash in which persona non grata is the rule rather than the exception the discomfort level should be ignored. People who can't get along inter-ethnically should recognize that their days are numbered.

It could use some editing but it's still essentially my position on the why. For that reason it will end up on the static website. There's so much stuff I have.

Posted by mbowen at July 12, 2003 11:36 PM

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Posted by: George at July 16, 2003 06:45 PM