There is a comforting myth that racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action is just a “tiebreaker,” or a way of elevating those with more promise but less superficial polish. That is now how it works and it never has been. The American affirmative action cult has always been about favoring less able people over more able ones, purely based on skin color or other superficial identity traits. There has been a vague sense that for things that “really matter,” pure competency will reign supreme. Yet that is a lie too — or, alternatively, the management of America’s medical system shows that the lives and health of the American masses do not matter.
Why does America have so many Jordon Walkers — shrill, hysterical, sinister, incompetent? Because every day we choose to have them.