This created huge incentives to avoid disparate outcomes, even if avoiding disparate outcomes was itself discriminatory. Subjecting every business action to this kind of government oversight massively increased overhead and fundamnetally changed American society for the worse.
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There's a very big difference between "I don't think businesses should discriminate based race" and "Discrimination based on race should be illegal and every action should be subject to government oversight". Sometimes the "cure" is worse than the disease.
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Sometimes trying to fix a problem with government actually makes everything worse. If you look at a problem that's costing society $10m/year and then "fix" that problem by adding other costs of $100m/year, you haven't actually made society better.
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This is exactly what's going on with the civil rights act. Add it up. What's the cost of the diversity industry + most of HR + productivity declines due to AA + changes in actions due to fear of liability under the act? At least hundreds of billions a year.
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And this cost doesn't even get into the losses from white flight, the fear of going out in cities at night, the crime surge following the act, and the general losses of social cohesion & increased use of thr legal system resulting from forcing different groups together.
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and the student loan bubble - set off by Griggs v. Duke Power, where a black guy thought it was racist that he had to take a test to get a promotion
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Disparate impact is easily one of the most destructive concepts in governance today. It legitimizes all sorts of tribal shenanigans.
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It comes down to simple logic: Had we fought harder to enforce constitutional originalism.. such as passing judicial acts to clean out "living document" judges, the 14th amendment would have been enforced and we would not have Orwellian, animal-farm-like "protected classes".
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