The Social-Democratic/Liberal Divide: The Moderate Left Must Oppose Affirmative Action

Stand with Jennifer Gratz!

Perhaps no domestic issue divides Social-Democrats from Liberals like the issue of affirmative action.

Yidden, do not believe the lies of the far-Left who try to usurp our glorious history! Social-Democrats and the Jewish Moderate Left have historically always detested racial or gender based preferences. Social-Democrats particularly have always detested such a lens for evaluating the qualifications of an individual by his/her race or gender.

The functional benefits of making racial and gender a qualification in the workplace are wildly exaggerated and unproven, even as the costs are hidden and hushed, lest you risk being declared a “racist.�

We have to stand up to the far-Left who claim it is “racist� to ignore the race or gender of an applicant. This is the opposite of truth. No one goes to the hospital to experience the healing powers of diversity. They go to receive medical care. If you are more concerned with a doctor’s gender or race than you are receiving the top notch medical care, you do not only need a medical hospital to have your body healed; you need a mental institution to have your head examined. If you only care about such things for others but not you and yours, who receive top medical care by top doctors not chosen in any way because of the “diversity� issue, well, you are very selfish in your willingness to let others pay the cost of your “idealism� for diversity.

The idea that so-called “progressive� Jews are behind affirmative action is a betrayal of grand, moderate-Left principals. We must not be afraid to be called names, be they “fascist,� “racist,� or “misogynist.�

Those of us from families who fought quotas against Jews and others decades ago were always called nasty names. We were willing to be called names for our stand against “preferences� then, so too we must be willing to be called names for our stand against preferences now.

It stunk then. It stinks now.

Let’s try fair. For once in this nation’s history. Not the pre-1965 policies of segregation; not the post-1965 policies of reverse discrimination.

Fair.