Christopher Rufo
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
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Disparate impact says the intention to discriminate doesn't matter. The action of deliberate discrimination against a group doesn't matter. All that matters is if there is a disparate or disproportionate number of people of one group. that is de facto racism. That is de facto discrimination. And so this, of course, again, only applies one way.
If you don't have enough African Americans at Harvard, it means that you have to provide a racial quota or a kind of positive discrimination as a remedy. But it doesn't apply to, for example, the NBA. We could say there are not enough Asian and Jewish players in the NBA. which under disparate impact theory means the NBA is discriminating against Asians and Jews.
But that really just reveals the absurdity of the whole concept. The NBA is hyper-competitive, hyper-meritocratic. It just so happens that certain groups are not as dedicated or not as talented in basketball than other groups. And so what the president is saying is we're going to go back to actual, real, substantial discrimination as the test. We can't use statistical pseudoscience.
And we also can't assume that there will be an equal distribution by race in every category. For example, something as silly as Korean Americans own a disproportionate number of dry cleaners. I'm okay with that. That's completely fine. And now the president is saying, we can't take these absurd standards and make them into law.
Well, it's just the first step. And so it's beyond question that these left-wing racialist ideologies have compromised academic institutions. They've really degraded race relations in the United States. And they've turned many K-12 schools into these kind of ideological training grounds.
These executive orders are the beginning of reversing that process and moving America towards the standard of colorblind equality. under which everyone is treated equally as an individual and not rewarded or punished based on their ancestry. That vision of America is extraordinarily popular. That is a vision of America that most everyday Americans support.
And so what has to happen next to make that a reality is that the administration has to keep pressing forward on these policies to change the culture within these institutions,
And then to take people like President Christopher Icegruber of Princeton, put him on the stand, punish him publicly and severely for the racial discrimination that he has perpetuated at his university, and really turn his reputation so negative that anyone else in that position will immediately say, I better get my act together and stop discriminating, even if my predecessors have done so in the past.
Well, look, here's what we have to do. I've had a lot of conversations with American Jews and friends who are very concerned about anti-Semitism.
But what I've been recommending to them as the most successful strategy is not to say American Jews need speech protections, American Jews need DEI, specifically on anti-Semitism, but actually American Jews can tap into something much higher and much more powerful.
This principle of universal standards to say every group needs protection from violence on campus, every group needs protected speech, every group needs to be treated equally and not rewarded or punished based on their racial, ethnic, or religious background.
That is the winning argument, and we have to see anti-Semitism as really just the smallest nesting doll into this fervent anti-Semitic, anti-white, and anti-American hatred. Bring that all together, bring it into a unifying vision that can protect not just American Jews, but people of all backgrounds.
Well, I think you have to start at the top and then work your way downward. You know, universities are driven to a large part by social status. And so if you can change the social status at the Ivy League University, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, most notably, And then you could start changing the social status at the flagship state universities, Berkeley, Michigan, Texas, et cetera.
You're going to send a very strong message downward that it is no longer safe. It is no longer high status. It is no longer even possible to have discriminatory DEI programs or to have this really anti-Semitic, anti-white, anti-American, and often anti-Asian sentiments and policies on campus.
I think that's what you have to do because we need to turn this into a cultural movement, not just a legal campaign. And that's really what we're fighting for. And we have to ground it again in this principle of colorblind equality, treating everyone equally as an individual. That's the frame that we have to deploy.
And that is both the sword and the shield we have to use to defeat the left and the left's really dismal ideology of judging people on the basis of race.
Yeah, absolutely. I think all of these orders, a lot of these policies were established by executive orders from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And so he has absolute authority to rescind those executive orders and to turn the government in a new direction. That's the basic nature of his Article II powers under the Constitution.
But the real tricky part and where this is going to get tough, not only for these issues related to racial discrimination, but also for permanently dissolving the Department of Education, the president needs Congress to act. And judging by the last 97 days or in change, the president is much bolder, much more decisive, and much more comfortable with risk-taking than the Republicans in Congress.
He's got to get Republicans to take some of these incredible executive orders and actually pass them through the legislature so that they can survive further into the future and they could still be the law even if power changes in four or hopefully 12 years.
Absolutely. Yeah, just follow me on Twitter at RealChrisRufo. Sign up for my sub stack at ChristopherRufo.com. And keep fighting, Charlie. You're doing incredible work. You're really a tremendous leader on all these issues, and we're all grateful for it.
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