Prejudicial but not Discerning

The IRS audits about 1 tax return in 100 these days. When 357,598 taxpayers filed the first modern income-tax returns in 1914, they had to sign them under oath before officials. And the Bureau of Internal Revenue audited every one.--The Wall Street Journal


Prejudicial but not Discerning

The Supreme Court has ruled against college admissions being decided by race.

    --"discrimination" means both "prejudicial" and "discerning."

    --Why are military schools exempt?

    --An Asian applicant has a 25% chance of admission. A Black student with identical qualifications has a 95% chance of admission to the same school.

    --What is the argument here? Is the point that there are differences among people? And those differences must be legislated against?

    --Is diversity in itself of value, even if achieved through racist policies?

    --The Diversity argument seems to be that diversity is a valuable second opinion to situations and is inherently worthwhile simply because it is different.

    --Quotas help some people. Some argue this is value enough. But they harm others reciprocally. So, is the 'help' argument legitimate?

    --Circumstances and history influence the present. And people and their prospects. How have the Japanese Americans overcome the astonishing animosity generated against them after the second war?

    --The common reaction on TV over this decision among Blacks was outrage, not flint-eyed resolve. Ot was as if they could not do without it?

    --Biden was asked by the impartial press if this was a 'rogue court?" Biden said the court was "not normal." The President of the U.S. who can barely talk, in a country that believes gender is a 'construct,' thinks the Court is not "normal."