Identity politics often yields regressive policy, as Washington state legislators demonstrated last week by voting to restore racial and gender preferences in state government. This is a setback for equality in Washington. In 1998 more than 58% of voters supported a ballot measure that barred the state from “discriminating or granting preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public employment, education, and contracting.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 05, 2019 21:11 UTC