239: Glenn Loury: The cruelty of affirmative action

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University and host of The Glenn Show, returns to the The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how race-based admissions policies infantilise black America, demonise Asian Americans and promote racial stereotyping.

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0:00.0	Racial affirmative actions are stepping away from the rules of the game.
0:13.2	Those rules being non-discrimination.
0:16.2	You don't treat people differently solely because of their race.
0:20.8	You're not supposed to treat kids as representatives of races.
0:24.8	You're supposed to treat them as individual persons.
0:26.8	They're not avatars.
0:28.3	A kid is black and therefore, and therefore what?
0:31.2	And therefore, the kid is black.
0:32.6	That's all you know.
0:33.4	You don't know what they're interested in.
0:35.2	You don't know how their lives have been.
0:37.1	Inverction simply, them having been black.
0:42.9	Hello.
0:43.4	Welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill Show with me, Brendan O'Neill.
0:47.0	And my special guest this week, Glenn Larry.
0:49.2	Glenn, welcome to the show.
0:50.6	Brendan, it's good to be with you.
0:51.9	Thank you.
0:52.9	It's always a pleasure to have you on to speak to you, especially now.
0:57.4	There is so much happening in the US that I want to talk to you about.
1:01.8	And it would be remiss of me, I think, not to begin with a pretty big story,
1:06.1	one that made waves here as well,
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