A Race to the Bottom Part II

My postings on female movie directors stirred up major anxiety from female readership.

Now, some loony dude is trying to make an all-white basketball league.

"There's nothing hatred about what we're doing," he said. "I don't hate anyone of color. But people of white, American-born citizens are in the minority now. Here's a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like."

Lewis said he wants to emphasize fundamental basketball instead of "street-ball" played by "people of color." He pointed out recent incidents in the NBA, including Gilbert Arenas' indefinite suspension after bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room, as examples of fans' dissatisfaction with the way current professional sports are run.

"Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch?" he said. "That's the culture today, and in a free country we should have the right to move ourselves in a better direction."

Notice the arguments in favor of a white-only basketball team mirror exactly the arguments for making more female movies by female directors. I don't see how proponents of affirmative action can argue against a white-only basketball league or against quotas for white-american NBA players. Sometimes it takes a loon to demonstrate the absurdity of a belief-set.