June 24, 2003
Affirmative Action
Brad Delong writes an excellent piece on affirmative action in response to Andrew Sullivan that begins:
Andrew Sullivan doesn't see what is so wrong with an elite university with no black people in it:Read the rest of the post and the comment thread. There are some challenging ideas that you may not agree with. I know I am going to have to give quite a bit of thought to a couple of questions he raises: 1) how long the marks of historical experience can be considered to last and 2) the concept of collective responsibility. Posted by Steve on June 24, 2003But why is a racially un-diverse but intellectually multi-faceted campus such a bad thing? Why is a world without... [affirmative action] so "intolerable"?I think that the politest possible response is that this demonstrates, more than anything else, that Andrew Sullivan is simply and totally clueless about what America is.
