Good public policy requires an accurate diagnosis of a problem in order to propose constructive solutions. But accurate diagnosis is becoming increasingly difficult. Why?
Because an accurate diagnosis of a problem affecting a specific group of individuals bound together by a common identity of language, religious, gender, race, sexual practice, ethnicity, or other distinguishing feature or behavior will give rise to charges of insensitivity and offensiveness. To avoid this damaging charge, a public policy analyst or team of analysts dare not trespass on problems or pathologies associated with any of these identity-defined groups.
And so...the problems fester.
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