White men are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action this country has ever seen.
First of all, while the general principle he's apparently trying to make--that white men have benefited from societal structure more than other people--may at one point have been true, though of course affirmative action as a principle didn't exist then, it isn't true today. Quite the opposite. I know of no program today which gives preferences to white men. But you and I could both name dozens which give preference to non-whites and women.
Second, affirmative action is by its very name an affirmative program, and by its structure is government imposed or at least supported. True, there were such programs half a century ago in governmentally imposed segregated schools, to give just one example. But they have long disappeared.
Third, it hasn't been all white men by any manner of means. In fact, there are few if any classes of white men who have been favored at all times in history.
Fourth, Pitts once again ducks the issue by spewing smoke. The issue is whether, given that certain of the black medical staff who might have treated his wife were admitted to medical school on the basis of affirmative action with substantially lower average grades than the white staff who might have treated for his wife, is the position taken by the man irrational?
And, it would be very interesting to know whether Pitts himself goes to black doctors or white doctors, wouldn't it? |
