While the Supreme Court is taking up a case against affirmative action, the one actual racist governmental law which unfairly discriminates against whites and Asians, you have Ivy League universities actively promoting their racist worldview out in the open.
Except Asians are the target in this case, so I guess it's not racist.
This is the official Columbia University account.
Screenshot in case they delete it:
Translation: Sure, Asians have worked really hard and deserve spots in school, but they've benefited from privilege so it's not like they ACTUALLY earned it.
This is racist crap coming from a supposedly "prestigious" University.
This opinion piece shared by the university was written by one of their sociology professors who happens to be, apparently, a self-hating Asian.
Here's a little bit from the piece:
This approach (abandoning affirmative action) is based on a fundamental misconception. Asian Americans face bias in education, but not in the direction the plaintiffs claim. Research that I and others have done shows that K-12 teachers and schools may actually give Asian Americans a boost based on assumptions about race. Affirmative action policies currently in place in university admissions do not account for the positive bias that Asian Americans may experience before they apply to college. Abandoning race as a consideration in admissions would further obscure this bias...
Teachers assume they are smart, hard-working, high-achieving and morally deserving, which can boost the grades of academically mediocre Asian American students...
So, her argument is that these students are smarter and better prepared for college BECAUSE racist teachers help them achieve academically. THEREFORE, we should make the standards tougher for Asians because they get an unfair and racist hand-up.
Social science is not scientific at all. This is such a load of nonsense.
Asian Americans made up 6 percent of the U.S. population in 2020, and 27.6 percent of Harvard's class of 2026. Students for Fair Admissions argues that number would be even higher if admissions were based on objective, meritocratic metrics, unconstrained by race. But the research my colleagues and I have done shows that some of the metrics that are most commonly cited as objective indicators of academic talent and effort — things like teachers' assessments and grades — are subject to bias and woven into the educational system well before students apply to college.
So these Asian students worked their tails off, they made the grades, they met the qualification, but because Asians are privileged that should all be thrown out?
