In the U.S. Senate, Tim Scott and Marco Rubio decided at the last minute to sabotage a conservative Trump nominee for the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals, one of the most leftist courts we have. Assistant Oregon U.S. attorney Ryan Bounds was given the heave-ho because of his criticism of group identity politics on college campuses. He had already been writing about the phenomenon while he was in college.
After doing some digging, I have finally found some examples of Ryan Bounds’s writing, from the Alliance for Justice. Here are some examples (.pdf via Oregonian):
“During my years in our Multicultural Garden of Eden, I have often marveled at the odd strategies that some of the more strident racial factions of the student body employ in their attempts to ‘heighten consciousness,’ ‘build tolerance,’ ‘promote diversity,’ and otherwise convince us to partake of that fruit which promises to open our eyes to a PC version of the knowledge of good and evil. I am mystified because these tactics seem always to contribute more to restricting consciousness, aggravating intolerance, and pigeonholing cultural identities than many a Nazi bookburning.”
“Strangely, the Multiculturalistas don’t seem to catch on to the inevitable non- efficacy of their rallies, protests, whinings, demands, and vitriolic brickbats towards all printed policies not incorporating the language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in their preambles.”
“I submit that the Multiculturalistas, when they divide up by race for their feel-good ethnic hoedowns, engage in nearly all of [the fundamental behaviors of group think].”
“Multiculturalists band together not into tight cliques of mutual interests and complementary powers, but rather into social clubs of ostensibly common racial heritage.”
“The second behavior of race-think is believing that the moral superiority of the group is unquestionable. Truly, the Stanford Multiculturalists are heavy hitters in the big-leagues of sanctimony; few would dispute that.”
“Whenever a group of white males happens to be at the same place at the same time, you can be sure that the foul stench of oppression and exploitation lingers in the air. In contrast, ethnic centers, whose sole purpose is to bring together exclusive cliques of students to revel in racial purity, are so righteous that the mere mention of cutting budgets incites turmoil on the grandest scale.”
“The opponent is the white male and his coterie of meanspirited lackeys: ‘oreos,’ ‘twinkies,’ ‘coconuts,’ and the like . . . He enjoys making money and buying material things, just to make sure people with darker skin don’t have access to them. He enjoys killing children and revels in the death of minorities (if you are white, male, and pro-choice, for instance, it is often ascribed to your desire for poor black and Hispanic women to abort their children as frequently as possible).”
“If a black person is an individualist and a thoroughgoing capitalist who eschews victimhood status and its concomitant entitlements, race- thinkers are quick to brand him ‘oreo,’ ‘Uncle Tom,’ or ‘sell-out.’”
“Race-focused groups foster race- think, and the only way to rid our multicultural community of race-think is to rid it of these invidious factions. We should be cheered, however, to know that our task is not impossible. The existence of ethnic organizations is no inevitable prerequisite to maintaining a diverse community— white students, after all, seem to be doing all right without an Aryan Student Union.”
Now, while some of the comments seem over-the-top, in general he is right about the kooky, irrational way that the “diversity” clowns think and act now.
And I know there are a lot of snowflakes out there and those who view as “racist” this kind of truthful observation of today’s race-obsessed climate. They will merely glance at the above, see some un-PC language, and shout, “Racist!”
But at least someone is not afraid to tell the truth about the college campus crazies whose view of “diversity” is that everyone looks different, that we have a nice rainbow-looking crowd. The superficial is what matters to shallow zombies. But when it comes to diversity in thought and opinion, they are total authoritarians and dictators, silencing anyone who disagrees with something and censoring someone who criticizes a policy from the left.
However (and this is a big however), given that this Ryan Bounds is an assistant DA prosecuting cases on behalf of the federal government, we know what THAT means. Drug war, making use of the unconstitutional surveillance state, and on and on. So, in the end, I say thank you to Marco Rubio and Tim Scott for the derailing (albeit for different reasons).
For the Appeals Court, we don’t want a social or cultural conservative, we want a libertarian, someone who actually understands that the U.S. Constitution didn’t authorize the federal government to get involved in drugs, or education, or the environment, and on and on. 99% of what the feds are doing is unconstitutional because it was not authorized by the U.S. Constitution. The police state exists right now to enforce the criminalization of many peaceful activities!
And the “means to an end” of prosecuting, anyway? The 4th Amendment-busting and 5th Amendment-busting surveillance state? Sorry, we need someone who is not only not afraid to tell the truth about the college campuses and “diversity,” but someone who isn’t afraid to tell the truth that most of what police and prosecutors are doing is unconstitutional, immoral, and criminal.