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Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint
An anonymous reader writes: A coalition of 64 organizations filed a complaint against Harvard on Friday alleging the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants hoping to attend classes there. "Many studies have indicated that Harvard University has been engaged in systemic and continuous discrimination against Asian-Americans during its very subjective 'Holistic' college admissions process." One such study shows Asian-Americans had to score an average of 140 points higher than white students on their SAT test to have an equal chance of getting in. The complaint seeks a federal investigation and demands Harvard "immediately cease and desist from using stereotypes, racial biases and other discriminatory means in evaluating Asian-American applicants."
Though I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, the term "reverse discrimination" is a misnomer at best and discriminatory at worst — because it implies, that discriminations are or can be different. They aren't and they can not — any preference given to one race, sex, etc. is discrimination and there are neither "forward" nor "reverse" among them.
Back to the topic, I'm surprised, it took so long. That the Big Education discriminates against Asians and Whites has long been very well known. Asians in particular have been advised to not identify their race at all — this would put them into the same category as Whites, which is an improvement. For ultimate win, claiming to be Black — if you can pull it off — is the best. The suit, apparently, compares the treatment of Asians with that of Blacks — which is a safer ground — but the real outrage is the Black privilege ... Too bad, the claimants in this suit are too chicken to go all the way.
I can not imagine, who — other than people with serious dislike for America and a wish to hurt it — would impose such policies on the country. No one would set out to find a surgeon of a particular race to treat them — why is it Ok to seek out a firefighter or a judge of a particular origin? It is so patently idiotic, a sinister motive is easier to imagine...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Yea, well you were not kept as slaves, killed for learning to read, beaten with inch and a quarter thick poles (often to death). Your families were not sold separately to different owners and broken up. You were not systematically excluded from education, jobs, housing, medical care for generations and eveb lynched for generations (as recently as the 1990s for several of those). The police don't selectively stop you, shoot you, arrest you while letting other races go without an arrest record.
So affirmative not really so much about helping or hurting you or your minority group. It's about trying to correct evils of the past and make things fair enough again that we don't have violent civil unrest, mass rioting and destruction of property.
If you have 2% of the population and 2% representation at harvard, you don't need help from harvard.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Even if you were african american:
You have not been kept as a slave, nor have your parent or grandparent.
You have not been killed, or even corporally punished for learning to read.
The closest you've gotten to being beaten nearly to death is corporal punishment delivered by your elders or in gang initiation or at the hands of police in commission of a crime.
Your family has not been broken up and sold off, though statistics show that african american households have far greater tendency to be single parent homes, that has NOTHING to do with said parent being sold off.
You haven't been systematically excluded from jobs, housing or medical care.
If you've been lynched by idiots, I'm sorry. Idiots are everywhere.
And while the police may stop or shoot young african americans with more regularity, the fact is, your neighborhoods generally have higher incidents of violent crime.
As for Affirmative Action "correcting evils". Please don't tell me you're such a child that you actually believe that bullshit.
Affirmative Action is simply another hand-out to make you shut up and go the fuck away. To make you a complacent little consumer.
And all that happens when you destroy property, look and riot is that you fulfill the very stereotype you wish to divorce yourself from.
And, at some point, you KNOW that it's going to have to go away, right? Or are we still going to have to deal with it 100+ years from now, when nobody in living memory even alive at the same time as anyone who suffered through racial segregation, let alone slavery. At some point, the hand-out is going to stop.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Chas is a racist jerk. End of story. He/she was modded up by a white hood. If slashdot had any character then they would delete his/her account. Could be Chas Bono for all I know.