Geee Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 The Federalist: It’s a long-standing public perception that the Left in this country are far more sophisticated, tolerant, and culturally and racially sensitive than the Right. In fact, the stronger perception, built on the first, is that the Right are narrow-minded, bigoted, and insensitive to those who look different or adhere to traditions or beliefs outside mainstream white, Western “Christian” culture. This is a myth. While you can certainly find a few right-wingers who are horribly racist and ignorant (Cliven Bundie, for instance) you can find the same in the Democrat Party, as well (I give you Robert Byrd). Enter the world of regulation, and one discovers exactly how insensitive and, dare I say, bossy, the far Left can be when it comes to ethnic and cultural relations. Two prime examples are the federal Housing and Urban Development Department’s (HUD) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Form (EEO–1). Both these titles sound nice—we all want fairness and equality—yet the reality of implementing these policies work against our popular perception of what it means to be fair, just, and equal. Feds Redline Communities Like most other federal bureaucracies, HUD draws its power from the ability to grant federal dollars to local municipalities. By power, I mean the power to tell local authorities what they can and cannot do as long as they receive federal grants. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or AFFH, is a massive expansion of HUD’s discretionary policy-making that claims its foundation on the Fair Housing Act of 1968. In reality, the AFFH has very little to do with preventing racial discrimination in housing, and a whole lot to do with, “Taking proactive steps beyond simply combating discrimination to foster more inclusive communities…overcoming segregated living patterns….supporting and promoting integrated communities…and ending racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty” (emphasis added). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Public Accommodation and Social EngineeringBy Ryan McMaken Friday, October 24th, 2014 Mises Daily Friday by Nicholas Freiling: Public accommodation laws that prohibit discrimination render property rights moot and create a legal system designed to force agreement with the state’s official moral code http://bastiat.mises.org/?p=12852 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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