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| Harvard's Admissions Bigotry ‐ A Partial Theory |
| 2018-06-30 |
| 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? |
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| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-06-30 12:13 |
| #6 Also, I'd have bet my last buck that I couldn't be more disgusted with Boston City Hall (who could?), but I learned the other day (what I don't know about Boston would fill Boston) that the original design included a freakin' bierkeller. Okay, so it's not Scollay Square, but still... alternate autobiographical possibilities abound. Dammit. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-06-30 12:10 |
| #5 chip outta the pile, on a tangent... In Cambridge, our beans are artisanal, All codfish organic and seasonal; Here, hybrids work quicker Than redneck corn likker And students are always amenable. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-06-30 12:02 |
| #4 Better reasons then my several ejections from taverns (in youth). But, sadly yours doesn't sound fun at all. Yehah! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-06-30 11:41 |
| #3 Deacon, I suspect there must be other bars where you'd feel more comfortable. But, hey, work on that story and you just might have something... |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-06-30 11:06 |
| #2 I was kicked out of the on-campus pub at MIT in 1992. I worked across the street from the camous and after work some of us would go to the pub. A young woman sitting near me said, "Are you from the south?" Dang! My accent gave me away. I said yess and she then asked me what state. I said Alabama. She then asked what I was doing here so I told her working for an engineering company designing and building an oil refinery in Jurong, Singapore. She then asked what school I had attended and I told her Auburn University. She said, "It must not be much of a school, I've never heard of it". I said, "We don't think much of MIT down there ya'll don't even have a football team". She called in to question my intelligence and the status of my parents when I was born and I compared her to a female dog. Her boyfriend stood up very fast, knocked over the table where they were sitting, spilled the beer, broke the glasses and pitcher, and they threw me out. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2018-06-30 09:47 |
| #1 Fuck Harvard - go to MIT instead. I'm sure they're are as many kale restaurants in Kendall Square as they're are in Harvard Square. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-06-30 05:40 |