“This would be designed in order to artificially boost the statistics of black players, making them more competitive in MLB. “Imagine, for a moment, that instead of MLB breaking the color line by recruiting the very best players from the Negro Leagues beginning in the mid-1940s, they had instead changed the rules of the game: black pitchers would now only need to throw two strikes to strike out white batters, and black batters would get four strikes before striking out.” Shapiro wrote.
Let’s apply that example to baseball to see how idiotic and counterproductive this is. The logic that Jackson and Sotomayor want to endorse essentially states that in order to rectify past discrimination, current discrimination must be utilized. In a Friday Twitter post, Shapiro applied the justices’ logic in favor of affirmative action to baseball “to see how idiotic and counterproductive it is” and illuminate that lowering standards to artificially boost black participation in the long-run hurts, rather than helps, racial tensions and equality. Become a Daily Wire member to watch seasons 1 and 2 of Debunked: Debunked The Daily Wire News 4.7 1. Join Ben Shapiro every Saturday as he exposes leftist fallacies in 15 minutes or less. Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro used a baseball analogy to refute the dissents written by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor in Thursday’s landmark Supreme Court case that rolled back affirmative action policies at universities. 21 episodes You know and love him as host of the most savagely irreverent conservative podcast on the web.
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