On Tuesday, the Trump Department of Justice announced they would move to combat the racism inherent in college admissions affirmative action.

Instead of using the DOJ Civil Rights Division as a sort of defense mechanism for radical leftist groups, as the Obama administration did,

the Trump administration is going to use the office to crack down on actual discrimination, pursuing what they call investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions, according to an internal document.

This is a welcome development, despite the left's quick move to demagogue the issue by claiming this is somehow a white identity politics defense mechanism from the Trump administration.

Often, the groups hurt most by affirmative action are not white people, but minorities like Asian Americans and Jews.

The left, of course, complains that the DOJ Civil Rights Division should be specifically

dedicated to the interests of particular minorities.

As Kristen Clark of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law told the New York Times,

the left thinks the Civil Rights Division was, quote, created and launched to deal with the

unique problem of discrimination faced by

our nation's most oppressed minority groups. She called the move deeply disturbing, called it a dog whistle.

That's ridiculous. First off, affirmative action has done nothing to advance black economic

interests. According to Stephen and Abigail Thurnstrom of the Liberal Brookings Institute,

quote, not only did significant advances

predate the affirmative action era, the benefits of race-conscious politics are not clear.

In the decades since affirmative action policies were first instituted, the poverty rate has

remained basically unchanged. Despite black gains by numerous other measures, close to 30%

of black families still live below the poverty line. In fact, very often those who make it into the top

universities through affirmative action are themselves hurt by the process. Let's say a black student

performed well enough to get into Duke, but not Yale. Putting that student at Yale means that instead

of flourishing an environment in which the student has earned membership, that student will now be

the low man on the totem pole. In an article published in the Atlantic in 2012,

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