Time's Klein on Affirmative Action

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Here's the whole thing: linky

I see AA as nothing more than racial discrimination. It was the lazy path to take in the 70s and it was never the right way to address any of the past discrimination, substituting one form of discrimination for another. There can not be 'correct' forms of racial discrimination because that is exactly what we had in America previous to Brown V Board of Ed.

But I really want to dig in to this sentence from Klein:

"In fact, there is a general acknowledgment, in all but the most troglodytic precincts, that our racial diversity is a major American competitive advantage in the global economy."

Now I understand that this idea is taken as absolute fact in all of academia and will doubtless be accepted dogma among the under 30 crowd but where lies the supporting evidence? I can think of many ways that diversity is costing American business money, most of it in general inefficiency of lawsuit-proofing procedures and hiring by quota instead of qualification. I see little upside that can be put on the bottom line. Oh yes, there's a ton of feel good, nebulous BS but show me the money.

And then I look at Japan where there is next to zero diversity, and I see a country that has economically kicked America's ass. No quota hiring there. Damn few lawyers too.

I know there are at least 90% AA/diversity defenders here. Defend these ideological pigs.