Posted by: DeusEx in Race & Racism on February 08, 2010
From today's Boston Globe:
"Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade, who reviewed data from 10 elite colleges, writes in “No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal’’ that Asian applicants typically need an extra 140 points to compete with white students. In fact, according to Princeton lecturer Russell Nieli, there may be an “Asian ceiling’’ at Princeton, a number above which the admissions office refuses to venture."
"Asians - who constitute 5 percent of the US population - faced an uphill slog. They tended to get excellent scores, take advantage of AP offerings, and shine in extracurricular activities. Frequently, they also had hard-knock stories: families that had immigrated to America under difficult circumstances, parents working as kitchen assistants and store clerks, and households in which no English was spoken."
Oops, turns out that grossly overinclusive and underinclusive progressive affirmative action policies are now discriminating against not only white Americans, but also against Asian-Americans, who "should" be exhibiting the same lower test scores as African-Americans and Hispanics if we buy the progressive story about the insurmountable odds facing racial minorities in the United States and the negligibility of cultural choices.
Can we please end this hypocritical and immoral experiment in social engineering? Affirmative Action has become a counter-productive embarrassment, not only to progressives, but also to our country as a whole. It fuels resentment in all camps, exacerbates racial clansmanship, and turns our meritocracy on its head.
The same supposed goals of Affirmative Action could be accomplished just as well through aid to underprivileged students of all races, but as this story illustrates, Affirmative Action is not really about fairness or equality at all. It is about irrational self-hatred, vengeance, racial clansmanship, and pandering to Democratic voters.