January 26, 2017
The Dictatorship of Equality
By Gideon Isaac
In 1972 Congress prohibited discrimination in America's schools -- that is, discrimination based on gender. This law, Title IX, had a safety clause to prevent preferential treatment to women if there was an imbalance between women and men in some activity.
Unfortunately, the safety clause did not work. Colleges found that in practice they had to balance the number of young men and women in their sports programs numerically. As a result, they had to eliminate entire teams of young sportsmen -- including swimming teams that produced Olympians. They often also had to eliminate "walk-ons" that is, people who were not recruited on scholarship, but decided they wanted to try out for a sport.
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