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| The Supreme Court Should Reject Racial Preference in College Admissions |
| 2022-01-29 |
| [American Thinker] The Supreme Court is going to hear two cases about racial preference in college admissions that allegedly discriminates against Asian students. In the 1978 Bakke decision, the Supreme Court said race could be a factor in admissions, but as anyone who is sat through an academic committee meeting knows, when race is a factor, it is the only factor. Even though the Supreme Court in Bakke said that a set-aside for admissions, or quota, was impermissible, colleges and universities routinely use racial quotas masquerading as goals. The consequence has been that highly qualified Asian students are rejected on trivial and subjective data, such as leadership skills and self-confidence, to increase the proportion of less qualified blacks and Latinos. How do Asian students achieve high academic status and participate in a range of extracurricular activities while lacking in leadership, self-confidence, and other personality traits? The answer is that when it comes to Asians, the subjective evaluation process is a farce designed to discriminate against them. Race-based admissions are not the exception but the rule. And no one but diversity, inclusion, and equity experts conducting so-called cultural audits has profited from this policy. Colleges and universities are run by a professional class of bureaucrats. And if anything, members of bureaucracy know that the very essence of their work is their own survival. To survive the political pressure of diversity, colleges and universities play a numbers game and reduce standards to produce a student population that will meet the espoused goals of cultural auditors and intrusive minority politicians. A great deal of social policy is counterintuitive. Among the casualties of the policy are the very minorities it is supposed to advantage. McWhorter: It's time to end affirmative action [Hot Air] Earlier this week the Supreme Court took up affirmative action by agreeing to hear challenges to the admissions process at two US universities. Today, NY Times’ columnist John McWhorter has a piece arguing that it’s time to end affirmative action, though he still favors programs that give preference to students based on income. When affirmative action was put into practice around a half-century ago, with legalized segregation so recent, it was reasonable to think of being Black as a shorthand for being disadvantaged, whatever a Black person’s socioeconomic status was. In 1960, around half of Black people were poor. It was unheard-of for big corporations to have Black C.E.O.s; major universities, by and large, didn’t think of Black Americans as professor material; and even though we were only seven years from Thurgood Marshall’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the idea of a Black president seemed like folly. McWhorter makes the column personal by talking about his own daughters. The oldest is still not in high school so they are years away from applying to college, but he says that when they do, he doesn’t want the admissions panel judging them based on their skin color: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Affirmative Action is racist. Stop it. Some might argue it was necessary to counter the racism suffered by blacks. But two wrongs don't make a right, they only make two wrongs. Can't argue with equal rights and equal opportunity. Can't go any further than that. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-01-29 15:10 |
| #12 Thx. We all need to anticipate & start making plans for how we'll manage in the coming (cultural, maybe economic also) Great Separation |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-29 13:53 |
| #11 Make no mistake. I'm glad I went there, had some very excellent profs, classmates and friends from outside the university community. If I hadn't already had a job lined up after graduation, I might have stayed in Ohio. Lot of good people there. OTOH, glad I went where I did and did what I did. And glad I left the Peeholes Dumbocrapic Rethuglic of PeeAye. Just wish I'd thought to do it sooner... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-29 12:45 |
| #10 I have no idea. I know it shrunk in undergrad enrollment after I graduated (1981) but I have not been back and get no alumni mailings from them at all. I have no reason to believe it's any different from the rest of the horde these days. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-29 12:41 |
| #9 M, What's CWRU like now? How woke has it become, relative to other top institutions? Asking for a friend Thx MF |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-29 12:38 |
| #8 I was at CWRU when the iranians took our embassy personnel hostage. the iranian students at the school marched in solidarity with the "revolutionaries." We threw beer bottles at them. The cops laughed. Then the administration put all the iranians together in one dorm. "For their safety." The good old days of higher education. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-29 12:34 |
| #7 The college admissions mafia will easily avoid it. They've already thrown away objective data and standardized testing requirements. Plus, every college-bound kid now has an A- or better average, so the admissions process is completely arbitrary and up to the admissions committees' political/financial whims. Aka "building the class," "ensuring a diverse learning environment," "promoting equity and inclusiveness," "recognizing achievement within the local context" ... and all their other BS. They're simply applying backfire quotas + optimizing for revenue now. They've made competitive college admissions into a complete joke. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-29 12:29 |
| #6 Given the level of indoctrination at almost all colleges now, we should be thankful they are rejecting at least some intelligent people from it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-01-29 11:16 |
| #5 ^ "As a wise BIPOC..." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-01-29 11:08 |
| #4 Sotomayor's performance at the oral argument is going to be like something from The Exorcist. |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-01-29 10:28 |
| #3 Harvard's reply was the same as Governor Wallace's. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-01-29 08:28 |
| #2 Including Supreme Court Justices |
| Posted by: Airandee 2022-01-29 05:13 |
| #1 Let's not stop at college admissions. "Racial preferences" should be banned everywhere. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-29 01:52 |