Upon reflection it becomes difficult to prioritize the host of opaque and patient evils spawned by Affirmative Action. The fearsome Hydra that is the humanist "Modern Attack" on the foundations of this nation (and on Greco-Roman Civilization in general) has birthed it's own likeness in this concept.
It is a matter of course that the defining hallmark of Affirmative Action is it's conceptual nobility. This sibling trait it shares in common with a host of other "noble" social cancers.
In theory it is but one modest opus in a sisterhood symphony of Siren song, ----but in practice, it is Medusa incarnate, an insidious monster.
Executive Order 11246 created by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 first coined the Phrase "Affirmative Action." The original order required all government contractors to ensure that applicants for employment were screened "fairly" and that employees were treated equally during employment tenure without regard to their creed, color or national origin.
Later Johnson specifically expanded his order to include women.
The initial concept of Affirmative Action however, soon began to metastasize. In the pseudo-socialist "feel good" world of the late sixties it found immediate favor with any and all political scoundrels in search of a refuge. It was therefore quickly adopted, canonized and added on to by the US Senate.
Naturally, those eunuch political districts that we Americans still insist on calling States, were eager to be among the correct elect. They too, codified and enshrined the great wooden horse within their walls.
All too soon, though at first discreetly, this "Greek Gift" began to extract it's effect. Meanwhile, lost in a riot of righteous blindness, the inseminated nation began gestation of a completely new moral and spiritual social disorder
Let us briefly examine just one of this Hydra whelps many heads:
Affirmative action, despite claims to the contrary, is a vehicle of discrimination.
It creates in a host of ways, that which it claims to seek to avoid.
One such path leading to this invidious result is traversed by establishing an intangible fear in the mind of an employer that incapacitates judgment. The ability to make an enlightened selection when faced with choosing between candidates gifted with equal qualification but generated from different ethnic groups is neutralized.
The hapless employer realizes that he is open to a multiplicity of discrimination charges based on creed, color or national origin (aka skin color) if he should choose the candidate in the situation described above who is a member of the majority or of the same ethnic group as he.
In this context, an additional more subtle evil is created that attacks the concept of the rights of an individual to make an informed choice in an issue that effects his own (economic) well being and/or his right to pursue the American dream of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Instead, these rights are now usurped by the cynical politics of socially correct intimidation.
In the end, in an attempt to eliminate a discriminatory social situation, we find that two new ones have been created, both of which are more subtle and much more pernicious in nature than that from which they were spawned.
So, -- as it is with the "Modern Attack," --so it is with it's horrid spawn:
--That from one head sprang forth two. -And from two, came forth four.
The successful second labor of Hercules NOT withstanding!
