A bit of an interesting story from CNA:

Catholic University of America is going ahead with its plan for single-sex residence halls despite a complaint filed on July 14 by Professor John Banzhaf, known for his lawsuits over fast food and women’s bathrooms.

In a July 19 statement provided to CNA, the university said it “is moving ahead with its plans to house the incoming class of freshman in single-sex residence halls when they arrive on campus next month.”

The university said it received a copy of Banzhaf’s complaint and will study it, but it remains “confident that the law does not require that men and women be housed together in residence halls.”…

The story goes on to describe Banzhaf as someone who fights against “discrimination”.  Here in modern America, we are conditioned to think of that as fighting against something bad – discrimination is bad, you see?  Trouble is, discrimination isn’t bad – and, in fact, each and every one of you is firmly in favor of discrimination.  You do it every time you make a choice.

You discriminate between peas and carrots.  Between Ford and Toyota.  Between paper and plastic.  Outside of those commonplaces, you also discriminate in choosing where to live.  Where to work.  Whom to associate with.  You are discriminating all the live long day.  So, why have we become conditioned to thinking that discrimination is bad?  Quite simple – some people wanted to perpetrate a series of injustices but they couldn’t sell it on those terms…so, they magically transformed their desire to do a bad, unjust thing in to a noble fight against “discrimination”.  Such as fighting against the common sense discrimination which would have us separate the sleeping quarters of young men and women.  Endless repetition did the rest – 40 years of fighting “discrimination” and having it endlessly hammered in to us that discrimination is wrong and we’re at the position where the application of common sense (in this case, separating young boys and girls) is startling, and the cause of a lawsuit.

A whole slew of things which are hideously wrong in our society – ranging from mixed-sex dorms to racial set-asides in college admissions as well as scores of other injustices – are built around the created need to fight discrimination.  If we were just after justice, we’d have long ago settled most of our problems and moved on. But there isn’t any money to be made in settling a problem – you can’t get famous that way; you can’t call in to existence vast bureaucracies; you can’t get on television talk shows and write best-selling books; you can’t have whole academic departments set up with cushy jobs and high pay if you are seeking justice.  It was unjust of us to once upon a time to deny opportunity to some people based upon their sex or skin color or religious affiliation…the solution to that problem was to stop doing that.  Presto, we’ve stopped doing that – no one in their right mind would dream of denying someone an opportunity based upon anything other than cold, hard qualifications.  But where is the advantage in such a thing to someone like Banzhaf?  Or an organization like NOW?  Or a whole bureaucracy like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?

I’m telling you, good people, we’ve gotten ourselves tied up in knots here – we have been forced to abdicate our common sense and turn ourselves over to people who are scamming us like no tomorrow.  Think, for crying out loud – we have to discriminate.  If we don’t discriminate, then we’re simply not thinking.  You point out to me someone who is actually being denied something on grounds other than qualification and I’ll be right there at the barricades fighting along side you…but don’t anyone ever tell me that I have to fight against discrimination.  To me, that is asking me to fight against thinking – we have to judge circumstances and desired goals and figure out the best means of dealing with the former and achieving the latter.  We can’t do that if we allow cranks on the make to forbid thought because the first application of thinking would destroy their cash cow.

There are truths we must adhere to – right here and now, that college boys and girls should not sleep under the same roof.  Grasp that – hang on to that; make that the basis of your thoughts and actions, and a great deal of mental cobwebs will be swept away.  Discriminate between boys and girls – because boys and girls are different and have different needs and desires and it is up to adults to carefully guide them until they are fully ready to take their place as adults in society.  Once we’ve done that, we can then go on – and on and on.  We’ll start thinking, again…and at the merest touch of common sense, a gigantic amount of irrational nonsense will vanish from our society like a puff of smoke.