By Walter E. Block What with the Supreme Court's hearing of the Students for Fair Admission case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, racial discrimination is now in the news. Like two contending (intellectual) armies, liberals and conservatives have staked out different positions.
There is a slight problem with this analysis--UNC is a subsidiary of the State of North Carolina, so it needs to be privatized first before any separation of education and government can be achieved. The proceeds from the sale of UNC to its new private owners are rightfully the property of the victims of the state government's extortion over the past several centuries, such victimhood not being defined by one's race. It turns out that extortion is actual aggression, not "microaggression."
A fun fact about Harvard is that it was originally founded as a public university, but was subsequently privatized. It still functions under two governing corporations that were chartered way back in the mid-1600s. Harvard has always indulged in discrimination of various kinds. An ancestor of mine, Henry Dunster, was its first President. While he created the durable dual corporate structure that still functions today and was generally regarded as a success in building up the institution, he was nevertheless purged from the Presidency due to his refusal to have his infant child baptized. It turns out that he was a Baptist heretic.
Yes, indeed, privatization. good poing
thanks. how's it going?
Dear Walter,
Very well stated. I agree with you completely.
Bubba Shaffer
There is a slight problem with this analysis--UNC is a subsidiary of the State of North Carolina, so it needs to be privatized first before any separation of education and government can be achieved. The proceeds from the sale of UNC to its new private owners are rightfully the property of the victims of the state government's extortion over the past several centuries, such victimhood not being defined by one's race. It turns out that extortion is actual aggression, not "microaggression."
A fun fact about Harvard is that it was originally founded as a public university, but was subsequently privatized. It still functions under two governing corporations that were chartered way back in the mid-1600s. Harvard has always indulged in discrimination of various kinds. An ancestor of mine, Henry Dunster, was its first President. While he created the durable dual corporate structure that still functions today and was generally regarded as a success in building up the institution, he was nevertheless purged from the Presidency due to his refusal to have his infant child baptized. It turns out that he was a Baptist heretic.