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Acting as if one’s genes trump all

Did Sen. Glenn Grothman really want the government checking bloodlines?

He’s proposed that those seeking a racial preference show that their ancestry’s at least 25% of the favored minority or that they show some knowledge of the culture they’re said to be diversifying a university with.

Does he mean this? The West Bend Republican wouldn’t say directly. But everything else he said suggests he’s really calling the race charlatans’ bluff: “If we don’t stop this thing, it’ll ruin America,” he says.