Divers Weights and a Bear

“Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.” (Proverbs 10:20)

When standards for entry or acceptance vary depending upon things such as race or gender, are we not playing with divers weights and divers measures? And yet, this is what affirmative action does.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” And yet, with affirmative action their entire criteria is based on the color of your skin.

James Thurber was an American cartoonist and humorist. He was famous some 80-100 years ago for his short stories.

“The Bear Who Let It Alone” was such a short story that told of a bear that would regularly get drunk. The bear would, “reel home at night, kick over the umbrella stand, knock down the bridge lamps, and ram his elbows through the windows. Then he would collapse on the floor and lie there until he went to sleep. His wife was greatly distressed and his children were very frightened.”

The bear saw the error of his was, reformed, and became a “famous teetotaler and a persistent temperance lecturer”.

Whenever anyone came to his house, the bear would demonstrate his sobriety and new found vitality by standing, “on his head and on his hands and he would turn cartwheels in the house, kicking over the umbrella stand, knocking down the bridge lamps, and ramming his elbows through the windows. Then he would lie down on the floor, tired by his healthful exercise, and go to sleep. His wife was greatly distressed and his children were very frightened.”

Thurber concludes his short story with a moral.

Moral: “You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.” -James Thurber

Affirmative action and all that falls under the Politically Correct realm is nothing more than divers weights and measures. It is judging by the color of the skin and not the content of the character. It is kicking over the umbrella stand, knocking down the bridge lamps, and ramming elbows through the windows and yet still falling flat on your face.

If you 1) first see race or gender in a person and it causes you to 2) react solely on the basis of that race or gender, then you are a bigot. You are a racist and suffer from either misogyny or its counterpart misandry.

Affirmative action and all that falls under the Politically Correct realm were founded and funded in support of separating race and gender so as to target and treat a specific subset with a different standard of care and opportunity. They reward your skin color and gender, if it is the approved skin color and gender and turn away any skin color or gender deemed inappropriate.

It is bigotry, racism, and hatred on full display. The only difference is that this is government sponsored and mandated.

Bill Hitchcock