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“Disparate-impact doctrine defies not only the statutory text, but reality itself.”-- Justice Clarence Thomas 

The US Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is defanging the pernicious legal doctrine that fueled corrupt biden’s government weaponization: disparate-impact theory.

Disparate-impact theory holds that a neutral policy or practice is unlawfully discriminatory if it has an unequal effect on different demographic groups, even absent evidence of discriminatory intent. It rests on the false assumption that racial disparities are the result of the contested policy rather than a reflection of unrelated realities. The corrupt biden regime exploited this discredited theory to weaponize enforcement actions by turning civil rights investigations into a cudgel against political opponents. This weaponized enforcement came at the expense of Americans Congress entrusted HUD to serve. By alleging disparate-impact liability, these politicized enforcement actions declared neutrally applied standards as illegally discriminatory for one reason: the biden regime sought favored status for preferred groups over equal treatment for all.

While the biden regime pursued disparate-impact crusades, legitimate complaints languished, creating a massive backlog of cases, drawing the ire of the HUD Office of the Inspector General. In a 2024 report, the inspector general reprimanded the agency for failing to close 70% of its complaints within the 100-day timeframe required by law.

Despite these racially obsessed intrusions, the biden regime failed on its own terms: Black homeownership rates peaked during the 1st Trump administration but saw a steady decline throughout the corrupt biden years. Even Jack Cashill’s data suggests that so-called “white-flight” was due to the concern for crime, poor performing schools, and riots and not racism.

Repealing HUD’s disparate-impact rule would be a crucial step toward undoing the abuses of the biden regime. Rather than promoting questionable legal theories to manufacture discrimination where none exists, the Trump administration, with HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in the lead, is proposing to reorient civil rights enforcement to protect real people from actual instances of intentional discrimination in housing. America has made tremendous progress curtailing invidious discrimination since the civil rights movement; HUD’s civil rights enforcement reflects that progress. We must reject the racial hysteria that manufactures means to slay the nonexistent dragons of disparity discrimination. With the disparate-impact rule headed for the ash heap of history, HUD is restoring fairness to civil rights enforcement. 

But the neo-liberal has abandoned class-based politics in favor of a rigid moral framework that divides society into permanent victims and villains, with “white supremacy” cast as the root of nearly every injustice. This “oppressed vs. oppressor” worldview is not a movement for justice but a modern-day Trojan Horse—an inviting vessel through which radical ideologies infiltrate Western discourse, weaken democratic institutions, and revive authoritarian ambitions.

 

Remember these things during the mid-term elections, and what party has consistenmtly used them.

The Tradesman