Commentary
In a free society that champions equality, judging people on their merits rather than on their skin color would be an uncontroversial practice.
So, that America’s ruling class recoiled in horror at the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which barred affirmative action in admissions at schools receiving government largesse, was telling.
Our elites betrayed their “anti-racist” belief in discriminating on the basis of race, purportedly to right past wrongs and achieve “equity.” Proponents of equity seek to engineer social outcomes such that people are represented in all aspects of life proportionally by identity. Minimally, such efforts empower the engineers….