THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

CONSERVATIVES BEGIN BY SURRENDERING | 2003-07-05

You cannot have racial diversity and freedom of choice. The Supreme Court just said that.

The Supreme Court has ruled that it is "a compelling state interest" to keep whites from going to the school of their choice.

More to the point, every country which proclaims diversity has outright hate laws or policies which limit freedom of speech for the sake of diversity. Every university which proclaims diversity has Draconian penalties for saying the wrong thing.

No conservative can say either of these things and be respectable.

Every respectable conservative must agree that "the race question is very complicated." In other words, it can't be dealt with by simple English and simple logic. When you agree with that, you have surrendered the important points.