George Will and David Broder weigh in on two Supreme Court decisions this term regarding discrimination.

One is the New Haven firefighters’ case. I am torn on this decision. Although I want to live in a world where race is not a consideration, the evidence in my daily life is that some people still discriminate on the basis of race. I also know that the effects of past discrimination last for generations.

On the other hand, I know that discrimination against white people causes resentment that creates other problems. And it is difficult to defend discrimination.

Will writes: “The nation shall slog on, litigating through a fog of euphemisms and blurry categories (e.g., “race-conscious” actions that somehow are not racial discrimination because they ‘remedy’ discrimination that no one has intended). This is the predictable price of failing to simply insist that government cannot take cognizance of race.”