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  1. Thomas Sowell _ Civil Rights: Rhetoric or

    The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. "Equal opportunity" now means preferential treatment. "Voting rights" now include preferential chances to win. School desegregation no longer means the right to attend any public school, regardless of race, but being forced to attend where you are told, according to race. "Equal justice for all" now means compensatory benefits for some-usually the more fortunate of those who share the political label "disadvantaged.
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  2. Thomas Sowell _ Civil Rights: Rhetoric or

    If there is an optimistic aspect of preferential doctrines, it is that they may eventually make so many Americans so sick of hearing of group labels and percentages that the idea of judging each individual on his or her own performance may become more attractive than ever.
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  3. Thomas Sowell _ Civil Rights: Rhetoric or

    Cultural differences are real, and cannot be talked away by using pejorative terms such as "stereotypes" or "racism."
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  4. Thomas Sowell _ Civil Rights: Rhetoric or

    However much history may be invoked in support of these policies {affirmative action}, policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.
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