Richard Samuelson Reconsiders the Anti-Discrimination Regime
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, |
| 0:11.3 | where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, |
| 0:16.9 | this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners |
| 0:23.5 | across the country. The intersectionality is used as a means of scoring those differences because |
| 0:29.1 | the civil rights law with statistical anomalies doesn't have a means of dealing with reality that |
| 0:34.0 | as you get more and more protected classes, they come into conflict. It's not just |
| 0:38.0 | white against black. This is your host, Scott Bertram. And that's Dr. Richard Samuelson, |
| 0:43.2 | Associate Professor of Government at the Van Ando Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale in D.C. |
| 0:48.8 | We'll talk in depth with Dr. Samuelson today about an essay he wrote for the Claremont Review of Books |
| 0:53.9 | called The Great Unwokening. Dr. Samuelson today about an essay he wrote for the Claremont Review of Books called |
| 0:54.3 | The Great Unwokening. Dr. Samuelson, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:59.4 | To quickly summarize your piece, Dr. Samuelson, we need a serious rethinking of the anti-discrimination |
| 1:05.7 | regime, as you put it. Why do you believe that to be true? |
| 1:10.3 | Well, in the piece, the controlling metaphor is |
| 1:14.4 | in medicine. The, as we know from all the discussions in COVID, sometimes the medicine that is |
| 1:20.2 | proper early fighting disease is not proper latent disease. But it's also the case sometimes, |
| 1:25.5 | and this is probably in other cases of medicine, the medicine |
| 1:28.2 | that you might get attached to, and it may be hard in the body to switch. |
| 1:32.9 | So to civil rights law addresses a serious problem, in 1964, Jim Crow law still existed. |
| 1:39.6 | You know, there were separate drinking fountain, separate sections in movie theaters, separate bathrooms, et cetera, |
| 1:45.1 | et cetera, all mandated by law. To fight that, we introduce a civil rights law, which is unprecedented |
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