Observers who take issue with current orthodoxies (race-based quotas, compulsory support for racial diversity policies) are often denounced or sidetracked in the country’s universities and other public institutions. Widespread discrimination is practiced in the name of these orthodoxies while the liberal democratic principle of non-discrimination — Section 15(1) of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms — recedes from public view and effect in the name of affirmative action.