Civil rights, as it developed after the Bakke case, required censorship. The imputation of free-standing, spontaneously arising racism—racism with no cause or justification, like some force of nature, and which no reference to history or custom could mitigate or justify—was the only logical channel for the exercise of power that the “diversity” doctrine had dug. If people were permitted to take positions like Glazer’s, to argue that any part of the difference in outcomes between the races was attributable to anything other than racism, the entire logic of civil rights law would break down. So
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