What is your favorite bit of Orwellian Newspeak? Near the top of my list is “affirmative action.” It’s such an emollient phrase, so redolent of cheeriness (savor the word “affirmative”) and practicality (“action”). What it really means is “discrimination on the basis of sex, skin color, or some other item in the contemporary lexicon of victimology.” But you can—almost—forget that while the pleasing phrase “affirmative action” echoes in your recollection.
Given the efforts of the Trump administration to end that bureaucratic hypostasis of affirmative action that travels under the acronym “DEI,” I thought I would take a moment to step back and reflect on the phenomenon of “affirmative action” and its ideological comrade in arms, multiculturalism.
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