Legal Commentary

A Defense Of Rand Paul (Or At Least Criticism Of His Critics)

A. Barton Hinkle has an excellent column in the Richmond Times Dispatch skewering many of Rand Paul?s critics for the hypocrites they are.

He entertained the Libertarian notion that private entities ought to be allowed to discriminate. His most vociferous critics, on the other hand, vociferously support discrimination by both private and public entities. Hinkle provides many examples of discriminatory policies favored by liberals. One of them:

What about the scholarships offered exclusively to racial minorities -- such as the Ford Foundation's Diversity Fellowships, the Southern Regional Education Board's Doctoral Scholars Program, the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and the literally thousands of others like them? If Paul is flatly wrong, then those programs, which perpetuate private -- and even public -- racial discrimination, should be outlawed.

Full post as published by Discriminations on May 31, 2010 (boomark / email).