Another “Diversity Is Good Because It Was Good For Me…”

Ian McClure is a law student at Chapman University in southern California. He attended public schools in Louisville, liked the “diversity” he experienced, and thus defends Louisville’s quota system: no school should be less than 15% nor more than 50% minoritiy, and students’ choice of schools should give way, where necessary, to this quota.

I rather like diversity myself, am glad Mr. McClure benefited from it, but am still unwilling to sacrifice the principle that no person should receive any burden or benefit from the state based on race simply because Mr. McClure is rather pleased with how he turned out.

“For the record,” he writes,

I am white, and I would not be the student, or the friend, or the working associate, or the citizen that I am now if I had not grown up in a racially diverse educational system.

Perhaps the world would have been a lesser place, and Mr. McClure a less stellar friend, colleague, voter, if he had experienced a school system actively devoted to the principle that everyone deserves to be treated without regard to race. But that’s a chance I’m more than willing to take.

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  1. Steve Sailer March 18, 2007 at 1:49 am | | Reply

    Having just visited Chapman U., this is all pretty funny.

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