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Harvard's Admissions Bigotry ‐ A Partial Theory
h/t Instapundit...So here’s my theory: It’s not that these kids don’t have good personalities, it’s that they don’t have fully "woke" personalities. They don’t speak the language of cosmopolitan, secular noblesse oblige that so often takes the form of political correctness ‐ at least not with sufficient fluency. They don’t know the shibboleths that demonstrate they understand what higher education is really for. Moreover, their inability or unwillingness to care enough about such stuff is an indication of what they want out of college. Perhaps there are a bunch of Asian-immigrant parents out there who would be perfectly happy to have their kids go to Harvard and major in gender theory or some such. But I suspect not. ...COMMENTS If Harvard lifted its anti-Asian criteria, Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research said the share of Asian students at Harvard would more than double, from 19 percent to 43 percent. But that 43 percent wouldn’t be distributed equally among all courses and disciplines. It would be a boon for computer-science and biology classes, but even more seats would go empty in women’s history or poetry courses. And I can’t help but think that the faculties in the humanities and the softer social sciences have disproportionate sway on the cultural and political assumptions of the school’s administration. They are, after all, the talkers. Of course, I’m making a sweeping generalization. I have no doubt there are plenty of Asian kids interested in such things, but, as a statistical generalization, I’m sure I am right. I don’t think for a moment that this theory explains the whole phenomena. The question is, how much of the bias against Asians can be explained by the desire of a guild to protect its own racket? Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-06-30 |
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