I’M EMOTIONALLY DEVASTED BY TRUMPISM

Trumpism has crushed me – not just intellectually, but emotionally, in my gut.

American education ingrained this into me.

I was brought up to believe that democracy, the rule of law, due process, equal rights, etc. were sacrosanct. I bought into the whole democracy ideal like a religion. Despite its many failures, I did not question the fact that democracy was far better than dictatorship. I felt this to the core, with my entire being.

I carried this feeling with me when living in Third-World countries like Uganda or Cambodia, where tinpot tyrants like Idi Amin or Pol Pot drove their countries into ruin. I could lift my head up high, feeling that American democracy was far superior to the morass of corruption and abuse I saw in those countries. And the people in those countries admired my American ideals.

Now, Trumpism has come along and is destroying the democracy I believed in. What really crushes me, however, is how almost half of all Americans support this destruction of democracy. Some 47% of all Americans approve of Trump’s behavior. They rejoice at the kidnapping of innocent non-white Americans and shipping them off, without any due process, to Alligator Auschwitz or El Salvador torture camps. They approve of sending American soldiers against American citizens in Democratic states where crime rates have actually fallen. They think that slavery was ‘not all that bad’. And worst of all, they cheer a 34-count felon and serial child-rapist as their President, who even boasts of his sexual assaults.

This is what almost half of all Americans are celebrating.

I was also brought up in the Christian church, where I was thoroughly imbued with the ideals of loving thy neighbor, being nice to everyone, and helping the less fortunate. Throughout my life, I have witnessed Christians becoming more openly racist, bigoted, cruel, and filled with hate. I could make a strong case that Satan has completely taken over the so-called Christian church. These are the Americans I grew up with. What happened to them?

This is worse than saddening to me; it destroys any faith I had in Americans. I am no longer proud to be an American, as I can no longer communicate with people who openly want to destroy the America I knew and believed in, all just to please their cult leader.

I still remember a note card that my old government teacher Mr. Steele had us memorize: “When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” The values expressed in those note cards have apparently been thrown out the window, as Americans now focus on vengeance, cruelty, hatred, and persecuting the vulnerable and less fortunate. America is ceasing to be great.

TRUMP’S CYNICAL NON-SUMMIT DISTRACTION

All show but no substance

All this past week the press has been hyping the great Trump-Putin summit. Pundit after pundit has been asked what to expect from the summit, and the answer is always the same:  “nothing”…. “nothing”……”nothing.” Of course Putin isn’t going to make any concessions, and of course Trump cannot give away territory that isn’t his to give.

The great day arrived. Hundreds of reporters gathered for the pre-announced press conference after 3 hours of negotiations. Then, both Trump and Putin gave very brief meaningless statements. (“productive talks”, “progress towards a solution”, blah-blah-blah) Then they walked away without taking any questions from the gaggle of open-mouthed reporters expecting to ask questions, who now had nothing to comment on. All these political experts tried to read something profound into Trump’s ridiculous truism, “There’s no deal until there’s a deal.”

Next, for hours after the protagonists had left, the pundits sat around trying to say something erudite and meaningful about what had just occurred. Their answers, couched in extensive vocabulary, all came out “nothing”…”nothing”….”nothing”. CNN had assembled its team of heavyweights, all of whom had nothing insightful to say. It was embarrassing.

You’ve got to hand it to Trump. He arranged this huge red-carpet spectacle to distract the world from the Epstein scandal, and wow! Did he ever succeed! While the media were hyping and over-analyzing the great non-event, no one mentioned Epstein. Both Trump and Putin knew that nothing could come from the summit, but each one wanted to profit from the image and the extravaganza.

The thing is, we saw it all coming. Everyone knew that the summit would be a nothing-burger, but they took Trump’s bait anyhow. Trump really played them, big-time.

Of course, the media game is all about viewers. Did all the hype bring in millions of viewers, or did the public see through Trump’s ruse? I suspect it’s more the latter, just as people stayed away from Trump’s big parade a few months ago. Or more probably, viewers initially tuned in but were bored by all the non-answers and tuned out.

They want to hear about Epstein scandal.

PEOPLE WANT SIMPLICITY — TRUMP SUPPLIES IT

This guy doesn’t look very simple to me.

I’ve recently been doing battle with the U.S. Government, trying to use a service online, but being stifled at every turn by the complex technology.

I feel that millions of Americans, with far less computer savvy than mine, are being frustrated by passwords, regulations, authentications, etc. They are facing not only blockades from government, but also from hospitals, insurance companies, banks, finance, and most services of which they wish to avail themselves. It is not surprising that millions of people view this system as a ‘deep state’, designed to exclude them from mainstream American life. They feel alienated from their own society. And they’re mad as hell! The guy in the above photo tells it all.

For many people, MAGA means a return to the Leave-it-to-Beaver pre-computerized life of the 1960s. There were only two recognized genders back then – none of this LGBTQ/DEI stuff to complicate life. You paid your medical insurance premiums to Blue Cross/Blue Shield, so that when you got sick, your bills would be covered. When you went shopping, you didn’t expect to hear people speaking Spanish or other languages.

People feel over-regulated. They face all sorts of ridiculous rules and obstacles to follow, and are blocked at every turn, whatever they try to do.

So along comes pea-brained Donald J. Trump, with his simplistic speech and thought, with simple solutions to everything. “I feel he’s talking my language. He tells it like it is.” Just slap tariffs on Chinese products, and the Chinese will pay us billions of dollars. Covid? Just shine a light up your butt or drink Clorox. Finance? Just lower interest rates to near zero so we can borrow as much as we want. Gaza? Just move all the Palestinians out and build a new Riviera.

I have a theory about why the stock market is hitting new highs, while labor statistics are abysmal. The rich upper class realizes that Trump is eliminating most regulatory bodies, so that businesses can game the system with impunity. Food companies can add all sorts of poisonous chemicals to their products, without being inspected or questioned by government agencies. Cars and airplanes will crash, for lack of inspection. Banks can cheat customers in all sorts of ways without getting caught.  No wonder, then, that rich stockholders figure that they are going to make out like bandits, especially since Trump and Congress have cut their taxes to nearly zero.

As the ‘Simple Man’ in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song alluded to above suggests:

“Be a simple kind of man; Oh, be something you love and understand”. 

Today’s bewildered man cannot understand the complex world around him, and he retreats into fear and hatred of what he cannot fathom. At least he can understand Trump’s visceral messaging.

THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS COULD NOT HAVE RIGGED THOSE RESULTS

Trump attempts to rig the hurricane tracking results.

Trump fired the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for ‘rigging’ the data. I want to outline why rigging is next to impossible.

I have some experience in this area, since I was part of a United Nations team to set up the Bureau of Statistics in the African country of Mozambique. There, I learned several things, which I wish to share here.

  1. A Bureau of Statistics is a large bureaucracy. Its Director is not necessarily a statistician, but largely a bureaucrat, charged with coordinating the various branches of statistics. The Director probably doesn’t know which reports to aggregate or which to rig.
  2. Statistics are collected at the grass roots level, are then combined by region, by ethnic group, and by countless other criteria. They are aggregated and then re-aggregated on many levels. Any discrepancy in the final tally could be (and always is) checked against the incoming partial tallies. Any attempt to rig the final tally would almost certainly come from one of the lower levels. Each contributing branch would know immediately whether its input had been falsified.
  3. Therefore, the Director would have to instruct the collectors and combiners all the way down the chain to falsify data. This is quite improbable, and even if so, there would be whistle-blowers.

I conclude that the Director fired by Trump could not have single-handedly rigged the results. Any rigging would have been carried out right down the chain of inputs.

Now Trump thinks that he can hire one of his own cronies to rig the results in his favor. The good news, as explained above, is that this is well nigh impossible.

The only way to rig the results is to intimidate the lower chain of statisticians so that ALL of them are in on the plot and would never blow the whistle for fear of retribution. Is it possible that Trump can intimidate thousands of workers in the entire Bureau of Statistics to rig the data in his favor? It’s possible but not probable.

Here’s a negative thought, though, stemming from the above photo of Trump altering the path of the hurricane with his blue sharpie. For Trump, truth is whatever he dictates it to be, no matter what the Weather Service or the Bureau of Statistics says. Just as he dictates that windmills cause whales to go ‘loco’ (as he said last week), or whether gasoline costs under $2 per gallon, that becomes his truth. Anything that doesn’t fit with his version of the truth must be ‘fake news.’

Look for his personal intervention in future statistical reports. He will personally report robust and glowing economic numbers, claiming that any other numbers have been rigged. No one will question him, on risk of being fired or jailed. But like the hurricane track before his sharpie intervened, the original data exist and cannot be destroyed.

THE THAI-CAMBODIA BORDER DISPUTE IS A SMOKESCREEN FOR CYBER SLAVE TRAFFICKING

I fear that the Cambodian media have once again oversimplified the recent fighting with Thailand. The simplified view of the cease-fire is that Trump threatened Thailand with high tariffs if they didn’t stop the fighting, so Thailand caved and signed the cease-fire. Cambodians are now praising Trump as the Great Peacemaker.

I have maintained all along that the main conflict is between the Thai ruling party (which I call the Peace Party) and opposition Pheu Thai Party allied with the military (which I call the War Party). This is essentially a three-way conflict: Cambodia – War Party – Peace Party. That makes it very complicated indeed.

Early on – way  before Trump entered the fray — the Peace Party had agreed to a cease-fire, but the War Party resisted. Finally, the War Party relented and agreed to stop fighting. Why? Because of Trump? No, the Peace Party must have made some under-the-table concessions to the War Party.

In any case, the War Party has succeeded in demonstrating that they are the tough guys, while Hun Manet has succeeded in becoming a Cambodian military hero. What else is there to fight about?

I have suggested that the border dispute may be just a smokescreen for the real bone of contention: the cyber slavery rather than the border dispute. These scams are often referred to as ‘pig-butchering’.

‘Pig-butchering’ activities carried out online by the cyber slaves.

Thailand has made some progress in fighting the slavery, through Interpol and international bodies, but Cambodia has been less vigilant. The traffickers are finding it much harder to operate their cyberscam centers within Thailand, but easier in Cambodia. Unsuspecting victims arriving in Thailand are then kidnapped and trafficked to centers along the Thai-Cambodia border. There must be some high-level Thai collusion in this trafficking. Someone is facilitating the transfer of thousands and thousands of these slaves into Cambodian border towns.

Here is what East Asia Forum says:

…when the job-seekers reach Bangkok, the preferred entry point for mainland Southeast Asia, they are whisked off by bus, taken across land borders and dumped into fortified compounds with armed guards. They have been trafficked. Their passports are confiscated…

     A senior Thai police officer spoke of corruption and resistance by officials in Cambodia adversely affecting a joint operation to release some of the suspected 3000 Thai cyber slaves in the country.

The 3000 Thai cyber slaves are only a fraction of the estimated 100,000 slaves from many countries. Most of them pass through Bangkok.

Neither government is willing even to admit that the cyberslave trafficking exists; that would implicate high government officials on both sides. The border dispute, therefore, is a convenient smokescreen to hide what is really going on.

It appears that the opposition Pheu Thai Party is demanding that the ruling party tighten up on this trafficking to Cambodia. The government passed a new cybersecurity law in early June, which has drawn harsh criticism for being too vague and ambiguous, and not directly attacking the cyber slavery. That new law may have been the trigger for the renewed hostilities.

Thai military attacks on various border points (not just the disputed temples) aim to disrupt this trafficking, partially by attacking the Cambodian border centers of the cyberscams.

My guess is, then, that the ruling Peace Party has agreed to tighten up the pressure on the Cambodian border cyberscam operations in exchange for the War Party’s acceptance of a cease-fire by the Thai military with Cambodia.

At the same time, the Cambodian government must have agreed, at least in principle, to tighten the screws on the cyber slavery in Cambodia. This may be difficult, owing to the huge sums of money and high-ranking officials involved. However, if Cambodia does not comply, there may be renewed fighting with Thailand.

Note that this cease-fire is only that  — a cease-fire and not a treaty. It does not address or even mention the resolution of conflicting issues, whatever they may be. The war could therefore flare up at any moment. Talks will remain secret, but my guess is that the border issue will not be touched (or perhaps pretend to be touched), while the cyber slavery issue will be at the center of secret discussions.

My prognosis is that such enormous cyber slavery is not sustainable, as it reaches international radar screens and the world demands that it be stopped. As the extent of the corruption comes to light, both the Cambodian and the Thai governments could be extremely embarrassed and might eventually fall. They will fight tooth and nail to prevent this information from being released. For this reason, the border dispute smokescreen is unlikely to go away any time soon.

THE CAMBODIA-THAI BORDER FIGHTING DOESN’T ADD UP

Read any article about the Cambodia-Thai border fighting. They all say that it’s about the small, disputed territory around some ruined temples. Other than the temples, there is nothing to distinguish this remote, forested region. However, the narrative is that Thailand wants that land, so they invaded, but the valiant Khmers have resisted resolutely.

Preserving ancient temples doesn’t seem to be a priority, either, as Thailand has shelled the world-famous temple of Preah Vihear.

What doesn’t add up is that the fighting is going on all along the 800-kilometer border between the two countries. There appears to be no strategy, or no actual targets, as each side fires missiles and drops bombs into random, unimportant areas, unrelated to the territorial dispute.

I read that Thailand attacked Thmar Da, in Veal Veng District of Pursat Province, some hundreds of kilometers from the disputed zone. I have been to Thmar Da, one of the most god-forsaken jungle areas in Cambodia. There is no ‘there’ there, hence no earthly reason for Thai forces to attack.

These random attacks suggest that this is more than just a small territorial dispute. In fact, maybe the territorial dispute is just a smokescreen for something deeper.

Cambodia has launched similar rocket and missile attacks on seemingly meaningless sites in Thailand, far from the disputed zone. What is going on here?

Cambodia, too, is playing this random shelling game. Is Hun Sen also just trying to play tough and send a message? I see no reason for him to do so. In fact, random shelling along the border gives the lie to the narrative that Cambodia is just defending its disputed territory.

An article in today’s (Sunday) Bangkok Post says that the Pheu Thai Party is claiming that the root cause is Cambodia’s huge cyberscam/slavery industry, amounting to BILLIONS of dollars per year, and supported by high-ranking government officials, who are paid handsomely by Chinese criminals to turn a blind eye. Nationals from many countries are promised good jobs in casinos and fly into Thailand. From there they are kidnapped into slavery, brought to one of at least 53 large centers in Cambodia, and forced to run romance or business scams on customers, on threat of torture, electric shocks, beatings, etc.

Even the New York Times headline reads:

The Online Scam Industry is Thriving. Cambodia Plays a Key Role.

The UN estimates that there are some 100,000 cyber-slaves in Cambodia, with an annual revenue of some 40 billion dollars. (Cambodia’s entire GDP is 51 billion.) That ain’t chicken feed.

Recently, Thailand has complained about this practice, and has in fact intervened to disrupt the cyberscams. They once cut off the wi-fi to Poipet, a large center for the cyberscams.

A Thai spokesman for the Bangkok Post, Mr. Danuporn said.

“[This war] is about the fallout from cybercrime suppression. Key figures in Cambodia are being affected, and there is growing evidence to support this.”

He cited the Thai arrest warrant issued for Kok An, an alleged Cambodian scam-backer and casino owner who was reportedly close to Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen. Authorities have also frozen significant assets and are working with Interpol to pursue international legal action against those involved.

The above interpretation makes some sense to me. The cyberscam industry is so huge, and there are so many high officials involved, both sides may be randomly flexing their muscles and sending messages. There are large sums of money being gained by important people. The cyberscam industry certainly dwarfs the importance of a couple of ruined temples in the jungle.

In all scenarios, Thailand attacked first. The positive spin is that both countries may be just blustering, while neither one wants a full-scale war.

WHAT DO CAMBODIA AND GREENLAND HAVE IN COMMON?

Disputed territory in northwest Cambodia

Cambodia and Thailand are fighting over the border defined by the French in 1907, and confirmed by the International Court of Justice in 1962. Thailand says they don’t care what the French said or what the ICJ says; they just want to take the land.

That reminds me of Trump’s stance on Greenland. It belongs to Denmark, part of the EU. However, Trump is preparing military invasion plans to take Greenland, simply because he wants to take the land.

The same can be said of the Panama Canal, where Trump has threatened to take the Canal by force, just because he wants it. Trump has even talked about taking over Gaza and cleansing all the Palestinians, just so he can create a ‘Riviera’.

The threat of unilateral land-grabbing has created an atmosphere where land-grabbing is considered part of the game. Trump has set the tone: it’s OK for big countries to grab land from smaller ones.

For nearly the past century, big countries have largely refrained from invading smaller countries to take over pieces of land.  This is because the United States has served as an international policeman. This is also due to the big-power rivalry that ensured that any invasion could cause a superpower confrontation. The past 80 years have been called the ‘Pax Americana’.  

It is only a recent trend that countries have felt emboldened to take land from weaker countries. Russia wanted to take over Ukraine without provocation. Recently, Rwanda has been backing an invasion of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, simply because they perceived weakness in the DRC.  According to the Internationalist 360,

the deal is beginning to look like a “mineral grab”

in another round of colonization of Africa.

Thailand is far stronger than Cambodia. The border dispute has been going on for decades, but only now does Thailand feel emboldened enough to go in and grab the land they want. No superpower will intervene or apply sanctions.

My fear is that the far-right extremists in Thailand will argue: “Cambodia is weak. Let’s go ahead and take over the whole country, or at least the three northwestern provinces that Thailand conquered centuries ago, before the French made Siam give them back. No one will stop us.”

Cambodia and Greenland are only two of the countries where stronger countries simply want to take their land. The new ‘Trump Doctrine’ is “If you want it, take it.” I fear that there could be many more land-grabs around the world.

THE EVOLUTION OF CAMBODIAN PRIVATE EDUCATION

Enhancing Pedagogy In Cambodia (EPIC)

I just participated in an education conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I was pleasantly surprised by a genuine desire to improve Cambodian education, by government officials, NGOs, and foreign agencies. Notably absent was any input from private schools, as though they were not interested in enhancing education. Why?

When I came to Cambodia 30 years ago, the country was a basket case, coming out of the Khmer Rouge era, when some 95% of all teachers had been killed. Education was especially weak, with teachers earning only a dollar a day, the exam system thoroughly corrupt, etc.

Private schools and colleges grew up as an alternative to the nearly nonexistent public sector. This was an attempt to bring some form of education to this failed state.

However, public education gradually but greatly improved over the next 30 years, to the point where it became at least an affordable alternative to the private schools. The private schools more and more were seen as only marginally better than the public schools.

Today, as I learned from the Conference, public education is forging ahead with reforms, while the private schools are mired in the status quo. Worse, the private schools have turned to marketing, in an effort to project an image of success and wealth, at the expense of quality education. The goal is now to attract rich families as a status symbol. Fancy new buildings and showy equipment increasingly replace raising salaries for qualified teachers.

Private universities, intent on increasing profits, have switched to Khmer instruction in order to increase student enrollment. While they call themselves ‘International’ universities, they have in fact cut off all their international contacts because their students cannot understand English. Public institutions, on the other hand, can offer courses in English, thereby attracting foreign professors, exchanges, and projects.

Another reason that public institutions, especially universities, have surpassed private ones is that only public universities are eligible for generous grants from foreign governments, World Bank, and the like.

One private university’s original “Mission Statement” included a phrase to the effect that it would help disadvantaged students. After a few years, the university’s owner quietly dropped that phrase.

What’s sad is that there are dedicated teachers in the private schools, who want only the best for their students, but they run up against a brick wall in the administrators and owners, who are willing to sacrifice students’ education in order to polish the school’s wealthy image.

To return to the question of why private schools are not interested in improving public education, the answer is now clear:  they are in competition. Any improvement in public education diminishes whatever advantage the private schools may have over them. More students may opt for the improved public schools, and that will diminish the profits of the private schools. The private, for-profit schools don’t want that.

TOXIC MASCULINITY IS GENDER DYSPHORIA

What? I’ll bet you never heard anyone make that claim before. But hear me out, as I make my case.

My understanding of Gender Dysphoria

The basic dilemma is that some people’s physical sex is male, while their mental make-up (gender) is female. Most transgenders will state that they have always been that way; there was no conscious choice to become transgender. They feel hard-wired as females. You often hear them state that they are a female trapped in a male body. They have always felt the disconnect between their gender identity and the expectations society placed on them to act ‘male’, meaning hard, assertive, tough, aggressive, competitive, etc. They felt that, in trying to act ‘male’, they were not behaving as their true self, i.e. feminine. If you read accounts of transgenders who ‘came out’, they are almost always very positive and happy, with no regrets, since they have resolved the conflict between their sex and their gender.

Toxic Masculinity

Jan. 6 rioters

The uber-male, in my observation and analysis, also feels the disconnect between his male sex – especially society’s expectations of male behavior – and his feminine side. Unlike the transgender, he tries to hide those feminine traits and to pretend to adhere to society’s expectations – in spades! He adopts an image of being super-tough, super-aggressive. It’s a Wizard of Oz situation: behind the pompous wizard is a little old man.

The Wizard of Oz – all smoke and mirrors.

Dressing up in tough-guy military garb is the gender-dysphoric equivalent of transvestitism. The tough guy dresses up to convince himself and others that he is a real man, while the transvestite dresses up to reconcile their physical and mental identities.

I always felt that the Jan. 6 rioters were especially pathetic. All dressed up in their cosplay military gear, trying to show how tough they were. I have read accounts of prostitutes who describe these guys as some of the mousiest, wimpiest pipsqueaks they have met. All because the macho guys feel that at their core is a feminine psyche that is somehow not man enough.

My claim is that both the transgender and the toxic male experience the same mismatch between their sexual bodies and their innate personalities. The transgender ends by adapting their physical body – through Hormone Replacement or surgery – to their mental identity. The uber-male tries to transform their mental make-up to their physical sex, or at least, to make their behavior conform to the expectations of society.

Why do uber-males hate transgenders to the point of wanting to kill them? I think it’s because they realize that transgenders can see through their macho mask to their more feminine self. Transgenders remind them of their own gender dysphoria. I think this fear of being found out also applies to spouse abuse, as the wife eventually sees through the tough-guy mask to the weak little boy inside. The most devastating remark a woman can say to a man is “You’re not a real man.”

You can guess that I tend to sympathize with the transgenders. They are aiming at integrity – living their true self by reconciling their physical and mental components. The uber-mensch, on the other hand, is hiding his true self from himself and from the world. When I see his constantly angry face, I think he is essentially unhappy.

IT’S NOT RACISM; IT’S RACE HATRED

‘Alligator Auschwitz’, the concentration camp built in the Everglades, really brings out the race hatred in Trump and the MAGA world. Did you see the smiles of jubilation when they described alligators eating 65 million immigrants? While liberals are aghast at the cruelty of the concentration camp, MAGA folks are rubbing their hands in glee. With MAGA, cruelty is the point. MAGA would love to see a photo of an alligator eating an immigrant. The Trumpies were actually selling souvenir merchandise for the concentration camp.

Cruelty is precisely the point

To state that those immigrants are sub-standard is racism. But rejoicing in their suffering is outright and overt hatred.

The hatred developed when leaders like Trump convinced the out-of-work laborer that immigrants had taken his job. Or the student who wasn’t admitted to a college, where he was told that less-qualified minorities were admitted ahead of him. Trump was able to instill a sense of grievance in those white supremacists, which became not just a belief in white supremacy, but an intense hatred of those non-whites whom Trump was able to label as rapists, murderers, and eaters of your pets.

Another example is that guy Garcia, who was sent to the El Salvador gulag but was recently brought back. Liberals are infuriated by the photos of those prisoners being marched through the prison, and they are further horrified to hear Garcia’s descriptions of the torture and deprivations in the concentration camp. But Republicans are overjoyed to see this guy – painted falsely by Trump as an M-13 terrorist – suffer to the max. Schadenfreude to the max.

I fear that the recent Big Beautiful Bill could make matters worse. Millions of white people will lose their Medicaid or Medicare, and will certainly not blame Trump. Trump will trot out examples of non-white people getting free health care, and that will exacerbate the feelings of grievance of his base.

So where does one cross the line between racism and race hatred? After all, slaveowners didn’t hate their slaves. I guess the answer must be that grievance is that red line. Not just fear, but a feeling that the minority race is making your life harder. Signs that the ‘Great Replacement’ is actually happening. That’s why Trump’s war on DEI is so effective. Remember that Trump even tried to blame that deadly airplane crash on DEI, even though there were no minorities involved. His argument was that DEI policies caused stress to the white pilots so that they could not do their jobs properly.

Too many white people feel that minorities and immigrants have taken their jobs or gained unfair admission to universities. “Affirmative action” may be the most harmful policy against race relations in American history. The backlash of hatred is turning out to be deadly.