Matt Walsh
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There actually is no solution that doesn't include that.
So if we're not going to do that, then it's just chaos all the way down.
That's all it's ever going to be.
But aside from that, what's a workable solution?
As I mentioned earlier, one of the most catastrophic legacies of the civil rights era was that it became illegal in this country for any policy to have a disproportionate impact on black people, even if the policy is completely reasonable, even if the policy is not targeted at black people or any race.
So it's an equal policy that everyone is subject to.
But still, the idea is that if you disproportionately impact black people, then we can infer that you're racist and you'll get sued into oblivion.
So if you have a policy or a law that black people disproportionately run afoul of and then are punished in accordance with that, well, then it's automatically racist.
That's the idea.
It's one of the dumbest legal doctrines of all time, but it persists to this day.
And it's one of the reasons why schools like Centennial High, which gave Carmelo Anthony a degree after he murdered someone, these schools are essentially banned, I mean, in effect banned, by law from disciplining black students, at least to the extent that they need to be disciplined.
That's because in virtually every case, black students are punished more than white students whenever any objective student conduct policy is enforced.
So to give just a few examples, in Virginia,
The ACLU filed a lawsuit against Richmond Public Schools saying that they were breaking the law by suspending too many black students for so-called subjective offenses.
And those offenses included walking away from teachers while they were being spoken to.
In other words, teachers trying to give you instructions and you just flat out ignore it.
Deserve to be suspended for that.
I mean, if that goes on too long, you should be expelled for that.
Because the school can't function with that sort of thing.
You're not going to listen or go along with the program at all, then we can't have you here.