By Peter Kirsanow
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Progressives in the state of Washington are determined to
discriminate on the basis of identity.
More than twenty years ago, voters in that state passed
an initiative to prohibit the state government from discriminating on the basis
of immutable characteristics. The voters’ command was simple:
The state shall not discriminate
against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the
basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of
public employment, public education, or public contracting.
The fact that the state needed to pass the initiative
nearly 130 years after ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and nearly
three decades after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is depressing enough.
But when it comes to discrimination, progressives refuse to take “no” for an
answer. Identity politics is their core. And discrimination is integral to
politics tied to identity.
So Washington progressives have come up with Initiative
1000. Initiative 1000 purports to prohibit discrimination. But it’s a scam. It
does precisely the opposite. The key discriminatory provisions are as follows:
(9) Nothing in this section
prohibits the state from implementing affirmative action laws, regulations,
policies, or procedures such as participation goals or outreach efforts that do
not utilize quotas and that do not constitute preferential treatment as defined
in this section .
(11)c “Affirmative action” means a
policy in which an individual’s race, sex, ethnicity, national origin, age, the
presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, and honorably
discharged veteran or military status are factors considered in the
selection of qualified women, honorably discharged military veterans,
persons in protected age categories, persons with disabilities, and minorities
for opportunities in public education, public employment, and public
contracting. Affirmative action includes, but shall not be limited to,
recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, outreach, setting and achieving
goals and timetables, and other measures designed to increase Washington’s
diversity in public education, public employment, and public
contracting . . . (emphasis added)
This is a license for the state and/or any city, county,
public college, school district, or other governmental agency to discriminate
until the cows come home — provided, of course, it’s “good” discrimination — as
defined by progressives; “good” discrimination, such as that engaged in by
Harvard (and many other colleges), which subjects Asian and white applicants to
far higher standards than similarly situated black and Hispanic applicants.
Washington progressives would’ve rammed discrimination
into law were it not for Washington Asians for Equality, a tiny, underfunded,
outgunned group of warriors which nonetheless succeeded in getting the
Initiative put to a vote in November in the form of Referendum 88.
Initiative 1000’s being sold as righteous, fair, and
good. In truth, it’s a social engineering abomination that violates equal
treatment under law.
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