Ruling that race cannot be a factor upsets - duh

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Goal: Desegregation, diversity.

Method: Be blind, be lucky.

Have integrated schools, but don't use race as a factor in achieving integration.

We (the government) will look at the ratios of race in schools. But you (the administrators) must not look at race when distributing the students among the schools.

Perfect.

An analogy:

The government builds a highway. It's wide and smooth and straight. You could travel 100 mph on it. But the law says that the maximum speed is 60 mph. The officers have to enforce the law. How can they do that without "discriminating" who's speeding?

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Roberts wrote.

Roberts makes a mistake in this statement. He uses the word discriminate in two different contexts, without clearly differentiating the two contexts and their corresponding different meanings. On Fox News, this kind of behavior is the norm. I won't accuse Roberts of being disingenuous or even sly, but he is being misleading.

"The way to stop discrimination [unfairly choosing] on the basis of race is to stop discriminating [perceiving, observing] on the basis of race," Roberts wrote.

To stop the practice implied in the first instance is a noble goal, and worthy of our best efforts. To stop the practice implied in the second instance is hopelessly unrealistic, and to indulge so in the name of being a strict constructionist shows lazy thinking at best.