David E. Bernstein
Författare till You Can't Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws
Om författaren
David E. Bernstein is a professor at George Mason University School of Law.
Verk av David E. Bernstein
You Can't Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws (2003) 57 exemplar
Lawless: The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law (2015) 17 exemplar
Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal… (2001) 12 exemplar
The New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence 3 exemplar
The American University Law Review 1 exemplar
Freedom of Contract 1 exemplar
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From the beginnings of the US Government‘s arbitrary classifications (as a weapon of exclusion) to today’s exploitations of those same classifications by various racial and ethnic groups looking to benefit from Government largesse, the journey has been a crooked path of ignorance, hypocrisy, and manipulation. Without realizing it, this book supports the views of economists from Hayek to Sowell that not only does government intervention in societal issues usually fail (whether the initial aims were benevolent or not), but it empowers a “race to the trough” for both those looking to “game the system” as well as others normally predisposed to abstain from such favoritism.
The author’s narrative strongly supports today’s politically unacceptable view that race is not only a social construct, but essentially moot, given the lack of any scientific method of distinguishing one’s race, ethnicity, or cultural origins. As anyone can be whomever they decide to begin today's society, any attempt to use the current classification system succeeds only in dividing and segregating the American populace.
Bernstein is hesitant to abandon the existing system completely, but like the tax code, it will continue to grow and absorb a larger cohort of Americans as each person will demand consideration for their ‘unique’ circumstances. The best solution may be to abandon the entire system and embrace a logical, scientifically-based approach that dwells more on the genetics, culture, and environment (in the cases of medical and sociological research), than on appearances.… (mer)