DeVos taps oppressed white woman to head civil rights office at Education Department

With all of the sheer oddities coming from Trump and Spicer over the last few weeks, it feels like we’ve kind of forgotten all about Betsy DeVos. But not to worry, Betsy’s been busy over at the Department of Education and this one is as eye-rolling and jaw-droppingly maddening as the rest of the news out of the White House. Betsy has announced her pick to head up the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. As with any good champion of civil rights, Candice Jackson has a personal history with this topic, which should make this a perfect fit for her. After all, she was the victim of “reverse discrimination” as a white woman, or so she claims, when she was a student at Stanford University back in the 1990s.

As an undergraduate studying calculus at Stanford University in the mid-1990s, Candice Jackson “gravitated” toward a section of the class that provided students with extra help on challenging problems, she wrote in a student publication. Then she learned that the section was reserved for minority students.

“I am especially disappointed that the University encourages these and other discriminatory programs,” she wrote in the Stanford Review. “We need to allow each person to define his or her own achievements instead of assuming competence or incompetence based on race.”

Let’s discuss this, shall we? There was one section in one class designated for minority students and poor, little old Candace felt like that was excluding her? This was probably one of only a handful of spaces on campus that were not open to her (and hey, it’s not like there were bodyguards with machine guns blocking her from entering in the door) but she was worked up about it enough to make a fuss about it? Talk about white privilege. And that’s not all. Candace brings with her a number of other questionable (and that’s putting it mildly) leanings related to civil rights issues to the position.

A longtime anti-Clinton activist and an outspoken conservative-turned-libertarian, she has denounced feminism and race-based preferences. She’s also written favorably about, and helped edit a book by, an economist who decried both compulsory education and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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