We are informed that Americans are racist and sexist and that’s why we need to discriminate against white and Asian males in university admissions, job applications, and government contracting. We are also informed that Kamala Harris, who identifies as a “Black woman” is likely to win the November Presidential election, e.g., “Democrats Kick Off Convention With Harris Ahead of Trump in Polls and Betting Odds” (TIME, August 19, 2024).
Can these facts be logically consistent?
(Of course, a person identifying as “Black” already won two U.S. presidential elections, but at the time this person identified as “male” rather than “female”, so the question of the effect of combined racism and sexism didn’t arise.)
From the U.S. government: “The federal government’s goal is to award at least 5% of all federal contracting dollars to women-owned small businesses each year.” and “Each year, the federal government contracts to Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDBs). This amount makes up about 10% of all annual federal contracting dollars.”
What’s “disadvantaged”?
There is a rebuttable presumption that the following individuals are socially disadvantaged: Black Americans; Hispanic Americans; Native Americans (Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, or enrolled members of a Federally or State recognized Indian Tribe); Asian Pacific Americans (persons with origins from Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, China (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, Korea, The Philippines, U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Republic of Palau), Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Samoa, Macao, Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, or Nauru); Subcontinent Asian Americans (persons with origins from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives Islands or Nepal); and members of other groups designated from time to time by SBA
If Kamala Harris also identifies as “Indian” then she is doubly “disadvantaged”.
Separately, I’m struggling to understand how an immigrant from Singapore is “disadvantaged” by originating in a country with a substantially higher average GDP per capita, a substantially higher average IQ, and substantially lower tax rates, than the U.S. Social justice is when an immigrant from Singapore with a Ph.D. in chemistry gets a government contract ahead of someone who grew up in a West Virginia Medicaid-fueled opioid mill town?
Dot Indians have a median household income about 2X that of white Americans -$152K vs $75K.
You need to the right kind of Indian to have any real “disadvantage” (i.e., in practice, an advantage), like Elizabeth Warren.
Kamala Harris is wrong type of Indian. That’s why she never acknowledges that part of her background.
Kamal is systematically trying every proposal that failed in Calif* on the rest of the country as if Calif* was the delusional conservatives & the rest of the country wants to be the liberal utopia Calif* should have been. The normal path is to swing to the center when going from state to federal, but she’s been going the opposite way.
She’s not really going to win; the books are cooked!
Forcing Joe Biden aside in favor of his Indian replacement is a typical American experience. The atypical part is that she actually does have marginally higher cognitive function at this time due to his pronounced decline.
“Marginally” in that she is hidden from the press just like Biden was in 2020.