A commenter on this blog expressed a disagreement with my previous post on Feel-good racism. The comment was polite, but for some reason unsigned, which is very annoying. Nevertheless, it deserves some answers.
Whenever the subject of racism in America comes up, the Left laments on how bad it is, while the Right points out all the progress in inter-racial relations, while admitting that racism still exists. So, let's agree what we call "racism". If racism means feeling of prejudice on the part of ignorant individuals toward other than their own racial or ethnic groups, then it does exist. There is no real way to combat this, other than point out the idiocy and irrationality of such prejudice. But if racism means prejudice practiced by the government or societal institutions, then it most definitely hasn't been around for many years. Additionally, if racism is denying privileges or awarding privileges to certain groups based on their racial or ethnic backgrounds, then Affirmative Action is, in fact, racist.
Let's get back to the subject I am more familiar with because of my own background: anti-Semitism. There are certainly anti-Semites in this country, plenty of them. Those who doubt that can go read any of the leftist blogs and find there plenty of ugly Nazi-like comments or posts. But anti-Semitism as an institutional or government practice does not exist.
The anonymous commenter said something about what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. I doubt very much that he/she ever saw, let alone read Mein Kampf. For the record, I haven't read it either. So, I am not going to attempt to quote from that crap. But I get very annoyed by people who heard something from somebody and then try to present it as fact. So, I don't know what Hitler wrote. I do know, however, that Jews and Gypsies were targeted for extermination, not immediately after he rose to power, but later during the war.
The anonymous commenter wrote that it does not matter if some Black kids don't perform in colleges, as long as they have a chance to go to college because of Affirmative Action. But in fact, it does matter. Perhaps it would be better if the kids from bad schools were offered preparatory courses in colleges, prior to attending regular classes. Interestingly enough, there was something like this in the old Soviet Union. That one of the very few things that were actually good there. Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution they instituted so called "workers' faculties". They were created precisely in order to prepare those who were underprivileged for college. My grandpa attended one of those. Later preparatory courses were offered to those who entered college after military service, since they often forgot the stuff they learned in high school. The inner city predominantly black schools are worse than suburban schools not because of some racist conspiracy, but simply because of poverty. I am sure there are predominantly white schools in small Midwestern towns that just as poor.
The Jews never had any Civil Rights movement in this country. They simply overcame the discrimination based on merits. The same could be true for the Black people. Any rational employer will hire the most qualified applicant for the job at the lowest possible price. Those employers who inject other considerations will simply lose in the market place.
I don't care about people's color. Neither do my kids. Why does the Left try to force me to pay attention to those irrelevant physical characteristics?
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