June 30, 2008

What's Wrong with America?

Among other things, retribalization.

A half-century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, people seem more conscious than ever of their involuntary differences. Good intentions have gone awry--and some nominally good intentions were pretexts. Nondiscrimination is simple justice IMO, but there has been a slippery slope from 'equal opportunity' to 'affirmative action' to grievance-based identity politics.

Obviously things are far better today than they were fifty years ago, but tension is rising. Is the center continuing to hold?

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