Power Line’s Scott Johnson posts commentary by Harvey Mansfield, a very rare bird indeed. He was a Harvard professor of government, now retired, who is a Republican! My favorite quote:
Affirmative action was never popular. By effectively excluding white males, it violated the basic rule your mama teaches that two wrongs don’t make a right. It was originally said to be temporary because those it benefited would catch up and become equal. But when that did not happen, it had to substitute “equity” for equality, and make affirmative action permanent.
And to cover over this move, professors entered the sensitive practice of grading and created a false equality by giving everyone an A. Grade inflation was the necessary companion of affirmative action.
Proverbially, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Nevertheless, it is still hellish.
