review of Invisible Victims
, Frederick R. Lynch s seminal study of the impact of affirmative action (a.k.a.) quotas on white males. Quotas are a zero-sum game, so somebody has to suffer. But at that point, as Lynch noted, the double-think about affirmative action was so extreme that its very existence was denied. Similarly, the systematic repression of news and analysis about mass immigration meant that the subject was effectively excised from the public consciousness until well into the 1990s.
At one time, I regarded affirmative action as the key wedge issue in American politics. When I worked for Senator Orrin Hatch
The Nightmare World of Anti-Discrimination Law
Marian Evans, American Renaissance, May 1992
The United States today has employment discrimination laws that could have been written by the Queen of Hearts in
Alice in Wonderland. They are a tangle of contradictions that stand the most elementary notion of fairness on its head. They are the all-too-real horrors that govern employment decisions every day in America.
The law, in its majesty, specifically forbids an employer to discriminate by race. Yet, the law
punishes an employer who does
not discriminate by race. The law specifically forbids racial quotas in hiring. Yet it punishes those who do not hire by racial quota.