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ONLY AN EVIL PERSON WOULD SAY WHAT WE ALL KNOW
ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
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So I will.
A couple of years ago in a Philadelphia suburb,
a teenage boy was being beaten to death. One after
another, people called in increasingly desperate
please for help. The emergency operators, all of
them black, said they would call it in, and they
didn't.
I'm sure this was not the only time this happened.
But it is the only time non-white behavior was reported
nationally as a disgrace. Recordings of call after
call after call were replayed, and the emergency
operator, in every case, was irritated at being
bothered. Finally a couple of them were fired. The
only regret any one of them ever expressed was one
who pointed out that he was being fired right at
Christmas. He was very sorry for himself.
I have heard nothing like this since. I am willing
to bet that the reporters who made this a national
sensation caught hell for it. They couldn't be stopped
while it was going on, but as I say, it won't happen
again, now that the NAACP and the General Powells
have weighed in on it behind the scenes.
Affirmative action means putting in affirmative
actors. Affirmative actors are people who are paid
to act like they are qualified. This would be merely
harmful if everybody admitted that it was a silly
game. Then all the incompetents would be isolated
in some harmless areas, and the quotas would be
filled. But preventing such token measures is exactly
what militant liberalism is all about. Nobody who
wants to be called a respectable conservative would
dare speak this truth.
So every time the space program has a major catastrophe,
what occurs to me is to wonder exactly who was the
affirmative actor in this enormously complex project,
where any slip kills. It can be an affirmative actor
anywhere along the line. It can be a pipefitting
project handled by a major contractor which was
one of the sublets to an affirmative actor firm.
I am not saying this is the case most or even much
of the time.
My point is that no one but an Unspeakable Person
like me would dare to mention this possibility.
And the space program is certainly not the only
complicated, interrelated, and dangerous enterprise
in our society. Every day more and more lives depend
on more and more complexity.
The next time you get on a jet plane, try to feel
good about affirmative action. While you're sitting
waiting to take off, have some fun trying to imagine
where, in all those complicated and interrelated
parts, the affirmative acting took place this time.
And the simple fact we all know, and no one dares
mention, is that life and death make no difference
whatsoever in this equation. Those who die at the
hands of affirmative actors are never discussed
and will
never be counted.
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WE
ALL LIVE IN SOWETO NOW
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Most of us have heard of a butler called
"Jeeves." The inventor of Jeeves was P.G. Wodehouse.
In his first book after World War II, called "The
Return of Jeeves," the wise English butler is quoted
as saying, "We live in the age of the welfare state,
sir. This means, as nearly as I can tell, that everyone
is destitute."
Right after World War II, in order to make everyone equal,
Britain's new socialist Government had imposed confiscatory
taxes, rationing, and regulations to the point where nobody
had anything. It was called a welfare state. It was also
called Austerity. And boy, was it ever austere!
So while America had a post war boom, the British managed
to make themselves miserable, all in the name of Equality.
The United States Constitution assigns the United States
Government the role of pursuing "the general welfare."
Not only is this not the same thing as "equality,"
it is very often the opposite.
Austerity was one example of how equality and the general
welfare conflict. Another is South Africa today. In South
Africa today, every honest person is worse off, in every
measurable category, than he was under white rule.
There is real genocide going on in Africa today. That
real genocide is taking place under the name Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. The old apartheid
Afrikaners would have come down on this epidemic in a
mercilessly Politically Incorrect way. They would have
imposed testing and isolated HIV-positive people in a
way that would have outraged civil libertarians and saved
millions of lives.
But instead of being treated as politically immature subjects,
black Africans are being made equal. And, as in the rest
of Africa, they are dying like flies. In the AIDS emergency,
what is being pursued is not the general welfare, but
equality. No one cares what happens to real people as
long as Holy Equality is the announced goal.
In the 1950s, I used to read about high rates of illegitimacy
and dope addiction. But back then, this was called a "Negro"
and a "Puerto Rican" problem.
Things are "better" now. We are more equal.
By "better," I do not mean that the rate of
illegitimacy and drug addiction among blacks and Puerto
Ricans is down. In fact, both rates have skyrocketed.
Things are better now in this sense: the white rate of
drug addiction and illegitimacy is now what the black
rate was in the 1950s. There's more of it for everybody,
but it's more equal because now it's general.
"Progressive" forces used to point to the black
township of Soweto to show what was wrong with the old
white-ruled South Africa. The crime rate was enormous,
and poverty was rampant in Soweto.
But things are better now. The crime rate is now higher
in Soweto, and there is certainly no less poverty. Quite
the opposite is true. Crime, poverty, and disease were
bad but getting better under the old regime. Now they're
worse and getting even worse, and there is no prospect
that the new downward trend will ever change.
But that doesn't matter, because everything is now worse
for whites, too. The crime rate is unbelievable in white
areas, even compared to American ghettoes! South Africa's
currency, the rand, was at a quarter of the old value
the last time I looked.
The old "safe" areas no longer exist. To paraphrase
Jeeves, "South Africa lives in the age of Equality.
This means that EVERYBODY is destitute, and living in
terror."
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