Chicago City Wire

Scott Yenor, political science professor at Boise State University, appeared on Chicago’s Morning Answer where he spoke at length on racial and gender equality and why he believes social justice warriors are getting it wrong. 

At the beginning of the interview, Yenor was asked by show host, Dan Proft, about his thoughts on reparations being passed into law.

Yenor opposes reparations being passed into law, but not because he believes that present-day African Americans do not deserve financial restitution for their ancestors being forced in slavery.

Instead, Yenor argued that reparation is a step back in the progress that America has supposedly made in terms of promoting racial equality.

Yenor said that the problem with the mindset of those advocating for reparations is that they are hampering the evolution of Americans’ mindset to be treated as individuals with equal rights, as opposed to members of a group severely mistreated in America's earlier days.

“The break from our tradition of treating people as individuals as opposed to members of groups is really what this is a pinnacle of,” Yenor said. “The whole point of people as individuals is to kind of wear away the tribal identities that people might have.”

Yenor also said that in order to promote racial equality, Americans should treat individuals equally and not as members of “aggrieved groups or minorities.”