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Pious Perverts See other Pious Perverts Articles Title: Hidden Key To Last Decade’s Disasters: Dubya’s Commitment To “Diversity” Hidden Key To Last Decade’s Disasters: Dubya’s Commitment To “Diversity” By Steve Sailer All those boring end-of-year / end-of-decade articles that journalists phone in so that they can take the last week of the year off are finally over. But here’s something that was missing from all of those summaries: a hidden key to understanding the two seminal events of the last decade—9/11 and the economic collapse. The factor linking the two big stories of the 2000s: George W. Bush’s sizable degree of culpability in both disasters: Of course, those are by no means the only causes of the subsequent disasters. But shouldn’t we at least talk about them? And what links Bush’s two blunders? George W. Bush’s Commitment to Diversity. Bush explicitly articulated that he was fighting airline security and traditional credit standards in the sacred cause of fighting discrimination. Was he lying? I’ve never seen any evidence that Bush wasn’t the truest true believer in Diversity. His immigration bills, No Child Left Behind—it all testifies to his naiveté. Compared to Bush, Obama is practically Lee Kwan Yew for worldliness. Republicans don’t want to talk about Bush’s blunders because Bush was a Republican. Democrats don’t want to talk about Bush blunders because they want to make more blunders like them. Yet how are we supposed to learn from our mistakes if nobody will mention them? Quoting Bush is always a struggle because his transcripts usually make it sound like he had a secret stroke at some point in the 1990s and can’t speak straight anymore. But, we’ll just have to put up with his oral artlessness if we want to understand the last decade. Here’s Governor Bush during his second debate with Al Gore on October 11, 2000: “So racial profiling isn’t just an issue at the local police forces. It’s an issue throughout our society. And as we become a diverse society, we’re going to have to deal with it more and more. “I believe though — I believe, sure as I’m sitting here, that most Americans really care. They’re tolerant people. They’re good, tolerant people. It’s the very few that create most of the crisis. And we just happen to have to find them and deal with them.” Please be clear. The “people” that Candidate Bush said must be found and dealt with were not terrorists—but racial profilers. In his first State of the Union Address on February 27, 2001, Bush declaimed: To make sure the last hints of sensible intuition had been obliterated, Mineta carried out a three-week study at the Detroit airport in June 2001 to make sure that Arabs weren’t suffering disparate impact due to unconscious worries by security personnel. Would ringleader Mohammed Atta have been grounded on 9/11 if airline personnel hadn’t been reminded so often to not be prejudiced against people who remind them of Islamic terrorists? Perhaps. Michael Tuohey, the U.S. Airways desk clerk who checked Atta in that morning later admitted that he said to himself: “If this guy doesn't look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does”. But, then “I gave myself a political correct slap”. And three thousand died. "[“I Was The One,” Interview with Oprah Winfrey, September 12, 2005] After 9/11, Mineta reiterated the Bush Administration’s policy. Wikipedia [January 10, 2010] notes: Mineta, a Japanese-American, repeatedly told the press he was motivated by having been interned during WWII. After airport security was taken away from Mineta by the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department finally issued more sensible guidelines in 2003 allowing the possibility of profiling at airports. Still, Barack Obama, after eight years of ideologically-driven negligence by the Bush Administration, felt it necessary last week to strengthen profiling by nationality on international flights. Republican politicians ought to ask themselves: What’s the point of ever electing a Republican President if a Democrat can be more easily embarrassed into sensible policies than a Republican? Similarly, Bush repeatedly framed his war on downpayment requirements as driven by his Commitment to Diversity. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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