Affirmative action has become the gateway drug to identity politics, or the breakup of America into antagonistic “oppressor” and “subordinate” groups constantly engaging in power relations. It suborns adolescents filled with angst about not getting into the right college into ticking the right box. The second seeks to overturn that precedent with a new understanding of the wreckage that affirmative action leaves behind, and not just for Asian-Americans. While rescinding them does not really amount to a legal body blow against affirmative action, it is a side-glance hit that checks its forward progress. Left unsaid, of course, is the damage the use of racial preferences causes to those in whose name it is practiced.

Source: Fox News August 20, 2018 07:52 UTC