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Doctor Hammer's avatar

I rather agree with your point about private institutions being able to do what they want. However, given the amount of government money that goes to private schools and the way that the government forces private institutions to behave if they accept that money, I think it was the correct decision in the sense that "these are the rules of what happens if you accept government money". See Grove City for an example of a school that eschews all government money due to the legal strings attached to it. If government money is going to have many strings attached (and arguably it should if one wants to maintain the fig leaf over it being blatant robbing Peter to pay Paul) those strings should apply to everyone accepting it. Remove government money and let private schools go nuts.

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Chartertopia's avatar

Or even better, get the government our of all discrimination practices. Slavery and Jim Crow were especially abhorrent because the government enforced them. Along came the 1960s Civil Rights acts, and instead of just dropping government bigotry, it forbade all bigotry, include by non-government actors. Affirmative action is just more government-enforced racism.

Let the bigots be bigots. Let them put signs on their doors, "No Negroes or Jews or Irish allowed, dogs welcome". I'd rather have them out in the open and know who to avoid. And allow private people to sue them for bigotry other what is on their signs. No sign? No bigotry.

Government is always the problem. Their idea of fixing things by slathering on more bureaucracy is akin to adding new bandaids on top of the old dirty ones. Government Jim Crow was the problem. Adding government affirmative action didn't solve the problem, it just covered it up for a while.

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