Cato Finito

[Louis Proyect]

Rakesh:
>The UChicago libertarian law professor Richard A.  Epstein argues that
>affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws lead to both the unfair
>over-hiring and -promotion of blacks *and*  their exclusion from
>productive employment (in order to avoid Title VII lawsuits on
>discriminatory promotion decisions or on failure to live up to
>affirmative action), firms do not locate where a
>substantial presence of minorities would pressure them into hiring blacks
>in the first place, suggesting that the abolition of Title VII would
>create an employment boom in the inner city--well at least Epstein's pure
>assertions  convinced Thomas Sowell). 
>
>So the same laws  help  blacks at the expense of whites and whites at the
>expense of blacks. 

So what are you saying? That affirmative action is a tool of the ruling
class to derail black-white unity? Are you opposed to affirmative action?
In this thicket of academic citations, it is nearly impossible to figure
out where you stand.

Louis Proyect

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