green73
02-07-2014, 09:59 AM
Thomas DiLorenzo (http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/anti-defamation-league-opposes-affirmative-action/):
I used to think that it was a prerequisite for being a card-carrying Leftist in America that one had to be a loud supporter of “affirmative action,” a.k.a., government-enforced hiring quotas that discriminate based on race, creed, color, national origin, etc. Just last week the leftist propagandists on several television networks condemned the comedian Jerry Seinfeld because one of his televised comedy “specials” did not have enough black comedians. Lefties are very touchy about these things. Seinfeld defended himself by saying “either you’re funny or you’re not funny” and explained that he chose the comedians for his shows based on merit, not skin color. That did not seem to calm his critics, however, all of whom wore expressions making them look like they had been sucking on lemons.
So imagine my surprise to learn this morning that Abe Foxman, the lefty head of the Anti-Defamation League, has come out against affirmative action! Has he been reading Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell? Probably not. In a newspaper column (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/commentary-quieting-the-anti-semitism-echo-chamber/ndFyW/)in the Palm Beach Post Abe quoted a Politico writer who asked, “Why only Jews are allowed to run” the Fed, referring apparently to Greenspan, Bernanke, and Yellen. Abe also quoted a similar Bloomberg News article that said “how about enough of Jews running things?” In response to these suggestions by fellow leftists to adopt affirmative action in Fed appointments Abe called for the censorship of such “hate speech.” How interesting that at least one segment of the political Left is now referring to calls for “affirmative action” as “hate speech” and urging censorship.
I used to think that it was a prerequisite for being a card-carrying Leftist in America that one had to be a loud supporter of “affirmative action,” a.k.a., government-enforced hiring quotas that discriminate based on race, creed, color, national origin, etc. Just last week the leftist propagandists on several television networks condemned the comedian Jerry Seinfeld because one of his televised comedy “specials” did not have enough black comedians. Lefties are very touchy about these things. Seinfeld defended himself by saying “either you’re funny or you’re not funny” and explained that he chose the comedians for his shows based on merit, not skin color. That did not seem to calm his critics, however, all of whom wore expressions making them look like they had been sucking on lemons.
So imagine my surprise to learn this morning that Abe Foxman, the lefty head of the Anti-Defamation League, has come out against affirmative action! Has he been reading Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell? Probably not. In a newspaper column (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/commentary-quieting-the-anti-semitism-echo-chamber/ndFyW/)in the Palm Beach Post Abe quoted a Politico writer who asked, “Why only Jews are allowed to run” the Fed, referring apparently to Greenspan, Bernanke, and Yellen. Abe also quoted a similar Bloomberg News article that said “how about enough of Jews running things?” In response to these suggestions by fellow leftists to adopt affirmative action in Fed appointments Abe called for the censorship of such “hate speech.” How interesting that at least one segment of the political Left is now referring to calls for “affirmative action” as “hate speech” and urging censorship.