Grace's Law Strikes Again!

Grace's Law of the Counterintuitive Response states:

In any society that disdains truth, the reaction to any calamity that threatens its most dearly-held lies is much more of that which engendered the calamity. Only faster and harder.

I can't help but think of this when I hear liberals' solutions to the rioting in France.

Matt Yglesias thinks that affirmative action and even quotas are part of the solution.

Similar sentiments were expressed at Alas, a Blog. (And I thought that they believed that "blaming the victim" was a bad thing).

Eugene Robinson has a ridiculous article called "Accepting Diversity Is Hard but Necessary," which includes this little gem:

The riots in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities ought to wipe the smirk from the lips of even multiculturalism's smuggest critics.

(Thanx and a tip o' the hat to Steve Sailer and to The American Conservative for an article (not available online - at least not yet) that directed me to Mr. Robinson's little bit o' crazy).

Actually, it seems to me that the smuggest critics of multiculturalism might decide that assimilation is still too diverse, and not letting people from alien cultures in (or at least not getting them or their kid's citizenship) is a far better solution.

It seems to me that if a group is rioting in a way that is mindlessly destructive (as opposed to, say, a riot where they are burning draft cards of deliberately working toward a particular goal with a minimum of collateral damage), we should ask what is wrong with them before we ask what is wrong with us.

That is all.