Here come quotas to France:

Nicolas Sarkozy, Interior Minister of France, has chosen a university campus to be a “laboratory for positive discrimination.” According to Le Monde, the Léonard-de-Vinci campus will become a testing ground for affirmative action, led by Richard Descoings, director of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. Sarkozy has stepped out in a controversial act, opposed by President Jacques Chirac, to test what he believes to be a necessary step toward economic and racial equality in France.

Affirmative action is a controversial topic in France, where “Liberty, Fraternity and Equality” – the national motto and concept of Human Rights – are expected to be granted without government intervention, by colleges and employers alike. But for many, increasing unrest and last month’s riots prove that this expectation has not been a viable one without further effort. Over the last year, many media-led investigations have revealed that children of immigrants often find themselves excluded from higher education and employment alike, due to the name on their resume.

Those biased employers have somehow gotten in their heads that somebody named "Ahmed" might be the kind of fellow who sets cars on fire.

As I've said over and over again, affirmative action is much less the result of any particular ideology than of the brute fact of demographic diversity. If there are sizable groups within your country with lower average IQs, then there will emerge intense pressure to give them preferences. Similarly, although Brazil has long pushed the ideology that Brazil is a "racial democracy" where nobody notices race, quotas have started up in the last few years. In contrast, Canada, which is stridently multiculturalist in official theory, doesn't have college admission quotas because it has so few people from lower IQ ethnic groups.

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