Count Every Vote? Or Prevent a Vote if you'll Lose?
The By Any Means Necessary strategy...don't let the people vote:
"The key to defeating the initiative is to keep it off the ballot in the first place. That's the only way we're going to win," said Donna Stern, Midwest director for the Detroit-based By Any Means Necessary.
There's something intensely wrong about groups that do not trust voters to decide issues, and it's no surprise that these groups are almost uniformly on the political left. Unlike most of her peers, Stern openly acknowledges that her preferred policy will fail at the ballot box, so the solution is to prevent that from happening. And in the process, they'll smear Ward Connerly, and assert that he's lying to petition signers:
"They ask people, 'Would you like to sign a petition to eliminate discrimination in Nebraska?'" Kramer said. "Well, gee, I don't know anybody who would be against that. It's such an offensive way to go about it."
Well, since the ballot initiatives that Connerly's group is pushing would "ban public agencies — including the University of Nebraska and state and local governments — from considering race, ethnicity or gender when hiring, selecting contractors or enrolling students" it seems to me that the question above is an entirely accurate way of putting it, which is why the bans are successful when put before voters. And also why folks like BAMN are terrified of them.
It is long past time that we stop using discrimination to right wrongs of the past. Affirmative action is discrimination that punishes the innocent, and does not help its purported beneficiaries. It is unjust, and it should end. Where racial or gender discrimination remains, let those guilty of it be punished under the law. But stop using discrimination to justify more discrimination, and lying and suppressing democratic action as a means of continuing an unjust policy.
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