Posted by
David S. on Friday, June 12, 2009 3:06:40 PM
Sonia Sotomayor's affirmations of being an "affirmative action product" or "affirmative action baby," as widely reported, serve only to affirm that she's all wrong for the U.S. Supreme Court, all wrong for the Constitution and all wrong for our country as the Founders intended it.
But as big a menace to true justice and fairness as Sotomayor's attitudes reveal her to be, she's hardly single-handed in her devotion to these misguidedly egalitarian goals. She's had lots of "help," as Pat Buchanan points out in his latest column. There he spotlights the complicity of Princeton and Yale, both of which, it seems, admitted and advanced her based on her ethnicity and thus "affirmatively" aided her rise to those heights from which she now waits to swoop down on our meritocratic traditions.
"[T]hose two Ivy League institutions," Buchanan writes, "cheated more deserving students of what they had worked a lifetime to achieve, for reasons of race, gender or ethnicity. This is bigotry pure and simple."
Yes, it is that. It is theft, too, if one thinks about it. In fact, such "affirmative" actions suggest an injustice of biblical proportions.
To perpetrate this sham,
"those two Ivy League institutions" first had to commit to taking what
was not theirs, for one thing, and then to making false statements in the bargain.
Further,
they had to anoint themselves the ultimate arbiters of what is "fair," then set up their very distortions of fairness as the highest good.
They
surely forswore their own mottoes -- "Under God's Power She Flourishes"
(Princeton); "Light and Truth" (Yale) -- thus insulting the noble name of
Him for Whom they were established.
They had to dishonor the
family of every fully deserving applicant they defrauded. They had to
foment bitter envy between the "classes," plus the murderous resentment
that inevitably follows.
In the process, of course, these "two Ivy League institutions" prostituted themselves with shameless abandon.
And it's certain they've been committing these iniquities seven days a week for decades.
Thus,
through their affirmative-action "policies" alone, the Princeton and
Yale Sanhedrin have managed to violate every single one of the Ten
Commandments.
Impressive.