The
United States Commission on Civil Rights
is in a bad way. Its job is to investigate
discrimination
and to study solutions to it, but it is dominated by liberal staff members who refuse to let the commission do its job. As a result, the commission’s work product is neither serious nor trustworthy.
Two of the commissioners, law professor Gail Heriot and attorney
J. Christian Adams
, detailed the commission’s decline in
statements
appended to the USCCR’s
latest report
about
anti-Asian discrimination.
The commissioners, who are supposed to run the USCCR, have been sidelined by staff members who abuse their authority to silence any discussion that undermines liberal narratives about race.
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The current crisis began in 2022 when the commissioners decided to study anti-Asian discrimination. To that end, they listened to community leaders and experts who told the USCCR about the anti-Asian bias they experience and study.
The liberal staffers at the commission only wanted to hear about anti-Asian hate crimes and “hate incidents.” They define the latter as any biased acts, such as name-calling and posting “hateful” material. They did not want to hear about anti-Asian discrimination in other contexts, such as university admissions.
But even about anti-Asian hate crimes, the staffers’ interest was limited by their commitment to the liberal narrative on race. When the staffers published their final report of the briefings, they focused almost all their attention on the need to count anti-Asian crimes. But they refused to consider causes or realistic solutions.
For example, the staffers’ report refuses to confront the fact that, as one expert testified, anti-Asian hate crimes are disproportionately committed by African Americans. The report also refuses to confront the fact that generic violent crime is a
much bigger problem for Asian Americans
than hate…
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