While in college at Texas, I wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Texan titled “Affirmative Action Exacerbates Racism.” A fan of Thomas Sowell then and now, back then I made a Sowell-informed argument against affirmative action: it enabled the very race-based discrimination that affirmative action proponents claimed to want to remedy, and in the process exacerbated racism by calling into question the admission of the racially favored.
In 2023, I still think affirmative action based on race a bad idea. Just the same, I think the Supreme Court’s decision to ban it similarly a bad idea. Many conservatives and libertarians disagree. Supposedly the Supreme Court decision was “A Landmark for Racial Equality" asserted one editorial, but since when do the right-leaning believe government legislation, decrees or rulings can foster laudable societal outcomes?
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