Huffington Post Op-Ed Editor Brags About Using Racial, Gender Quotas In Submissions: ‘Less Than 50% White Authors (Check!)’

Huffington Post Op-Ed Editor Brags About Using Racial, Gender Quotas In Submissions: ‘Less Than 50% White Authors (Check!)’. By Ben Shapiro. The Huffington Post is one of the main progressive websites in the West, with many country-specific websites.

At no point does Angyal brag about the quality of the op-eds — it’s only the identities of those who write them that matters. …

It is somewhat interesting how arbitrary the numbers she picked are. If she wanted her op-ed page to be truly representative, why not simply mirror percentages of the population? That would mean that 3 out of every 1,000 op-ed writers would be transgender; black authors would represent 12 of every 100 op-ed writers; Asians would represent about 5; and whites would represent 64 out of every 100. But that’s not the proper racial balance, of course — that’s racist, or something. So instead, she picks numbers out of a hat, so long as that hat disadvantages white writers. …

This is discrimination. End of story. And leftists are bragging about it because identity politics matters more than either quality or common decency.