Comments on: ODOT project misses minority goals

By: Merinas van der Lubbe

Merinas van der Lubbe — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:03:01 +0000

Don’t be too sure. We’ve already had one Supreme Court case decided in favor of this kind of foul discrimination, in which racist school admissions policies were found to be acceptable if they were designed to provide “balance”.

Yes, it’s unfair, divisive, racist, sexist, stupid, immoral, and beckons catastrophe – but the “Progressives” who create this sort of policy are impermeable to reason, being too stupid to understand racism and discrimination (or anything else, for that matter) as a neutral abstraction. In their childish, simpleminded worldview, such things are by definition entirely the provenance of evil white male “haters”.

By: Roger Clegg, Ctr for Equal Opportunity

Roger Clegg, Ctr for Equal Opportunity — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:36:28 +0000

Why do race, ethnicity, and sex need to be considered at all in deciding who gets awarded a contract? It's fine to make sure contracting programs are open to all, that bidding opportunities are widely publicized beforehand, and that no one gets discriminated against because of skin color, national origin, or sex. But that means no preferences because of skin color, etc. either--whether it's labeled a "set-aside," a "quota," or a "goal," since they all end up amounting to the same thing. Such discrimination is unfair and divisive; it costs the taxpayers money to award a contract to someone other than the lowest bidder; and it's almost always illegal—indeed, unconstitutional—to boot (see 42 U.S.C. section 1981 and comments we submitted to the Colorado DOT here: http://www.ceousa.org/content/view/655/86/ ). Those who insist on engaging in such discrimination deserve to be sued, and they will lose.

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