Word: actioner
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...Since when is shutting down a peaceful conference, at which the most hateful topic of discussion was likely affirmative action's dismantling, a success? Have defenders of affirmative action now deemed it necessary to sidestep the system and rely on threat of force to remain politically viable...
...like Ward Connerly or his ideas. Affirmative action, be it through active minority recruitment or the use of racial preferences, remains necessary to counter a living legacy of discrimination traceable to centuries of wrongs. But truth be told, liberals are losing the affirmative action debate. As the referendums, polls and court decisions pile up, we are not getting the results we want...
Rejecting those with whom we disagree might only set back our cause. At Columbia, when the conservative conference participants were barred from the campus, they relocated on Saturday to nearby Morningside Park, where they proceeded to gave their speeches outdoors. What symbolism! Forget the fact that affirmative action may be quite popular in Morningside Heights; the fact is, the liberals drove the conservatives off their sacred space and out into the public domain. The liberals secured the ivory tower for themselves and left the city--and the masses--to the conservatives. When they most needed to be convincing the people...
...must let our opponents speak everywhere, but all the more so on college campuses. The debate over affirmative action is not going to be won or lost inside the ARCO Forum or Columbia's Faculty House; it is going to be won where the people are and where they make up their minds on political issues. Saving affirmative action will not take more academic discourse; it will take massive public relations effort--a smart television ad campaign with a healthy bankroll and a popular spokesperson would be a start...
Just as liberals live in growing fear that America has had it with affirmative action, conservatives have to wonder if the future of the pro-life movement is not equally bleak. No doubt, the pro-life lobby remains strong and abortion continues to be restricted (i.e., parental consent requirements, bans on partial-birth abortions). But I would be just as surprised to see abortion outlawed in this country in the next 10 years as I would to see affirmative action embraced by the masses. Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned; the voters will not let it happen...