Progressives need victims!
Mars needs women!
My former employer is saying the quiet part out loud: that the WI Institute for Law & Liberty is racist. The emeritus editor of The Capital Times accuses the pro-bono conservative law firm of “[using] anti-racist policies for a racist cause:”
With generous tax deductible funding from the right-wing Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty — W.I.L.L. for short — has been successful in using those laws to allege discrimination against white people.
Note the whiff of partisan brimstone! (Not that The Capital Times doesn’t offload some of its profits tax free through its Evjue Foundation.) Emeritus editor Dave Zweifel damns Law & Liberty for demanding equal treatment under the law — as promised by the U.S. Constitution. The concept of equality instead of “equity” is an existential threat to the progressive/socialist enterprise — whose entrenchment into the bureaucracy, campuses, and media fuels the lucrative DEI industrial complex.
→ Democrats wanted to hide the DEI scam
Black robes or white?
The venerable Zweifel cites the 14th Amendment to support the left’s obsession with racial bean counting but gives away the game by correctly reporting that the measure “guarantees slaves freed by the Civil War their equal rights.” Equal rights — not equal outcomes. In June 2023, Students for Fair Admissions upended 60 years of affirmative action — the practice of favoring one race over another.
A benefit provided to some applicants but not to others necessarily advantages the former group at the expense of the latter. — Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
In a competition for that last spot in the honors class, The Capital Times would pick Michael Jordan’s kid over the white kid whose grandfather worked the kill floor at Oscar Mayer. Treating black people as a monolith of hapless victims is today’s politically correct racism. It explains Gavin Newsom trying to ingratiate himself to a black audience by recounting his dyslexia. Get it? The white, millionaire governor is a victim, too!
Many universities have for too long … concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice. — Chief Justice Roberts
Blaska has some skin in this game. W.I.L.L. represented your irascible bloggeur in a lawsuit against the City of Madison for requiring minority races — but not white — as a requisite for membership on the Police Civilian Oversight Board. (We won!)
What would you say …?
Name the high-tech area firm that won’t hire the biochemist with dark skin. What high school principal doesn’t exult at the success of that Section 8 kid? How racist is metro Madison when it elects minority-race candidates out of proportion to their demographic?
Yet and still, between Dane County and the City of Madison, taxpayers spend $4.3 million/year on equal rights enforcement. Have alders or supervisors asked that Office Space question: What would you say you do here? (Answer appears to be sue each other.)
Blaska’s Bottom Line: can’t do better than Justice Roberts: “The way to end racial discrimination is to stop discriminating by race.”
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