[lbo-talk] Supremes: diversity = legit leaders

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 25 09:36:42 PDT 2003


RE wrote:


>The second paragraph of the WSJrnl's lead article today:
>
>"In a landmark decision with wide-ranging implications for affirmative
>action across American society, the court ruled that it is legal to give
>some preferential treatment to disadvantaged minorities, calling the
>diversity that they bring to education, business and the military necessary
>to the cultivation of "a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the
>citizenry."
>
>A new twist to the idea of repressive tolerance from the election thieves.
>Is it implausible to think that O'Connor explicitly sees this ruling as
>counterbalancing some of the damage they did?

Big capital likes affirmative action, and submitted amicus briefs in support of it. As Marx said, the better a ruling class is able to absorb the natural leaders of the dominated class, the more solid & dangerous is its rule.

Doug



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