Work, Not Woke—Why on Race, U.S. Higher Education Should Copy the U.S. Army
…ethnicity. Parenthetically, as noted in my prior essay, my kids’ friends are largely East Asian and to a lesser degree South Asian, just as my friends back in the 1970s…
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Should I Get Canceled for Telling the Emperor He Has No Clothes On?
…Americans in the early 1990s, to current anti-Asian discrimination in educational access, Americans of Asian descent have endured historical marginalization and unfair treatment. However, rather than being defined by the…
History, Heritage, and the Many Troubles with 1619
…(CUNY) back in the day. Just as CUNY was once heavily Jewish, UTD is heavily South Asian and East Asian, and nearly a fifth Hispanic. A significant number of the…
“Equity”?
…are unable to produce melanin because their pineal glands are often calcification or non-functioning. Pineal calcification rates with Africans are five to 15 percent, Asians 15 to 25 percent and…
We Love Diversity, But Hate Differences
…whites, Asians, Christians, or Jews are “overrepresented” in relation to their percentage of the general population are the claims of bigotry and discrimination invoked. The insistence on equality of outcomes…
Prejudice Under the Microscope: The Implicit Association Test (Part II)
…whites. One writer defines implicit bias as occurring whenever someone consciously rejects stereotypes and supports anti-discrimination efforts, but also holds negative associations in his mind unconsciously. According to this narrative,…
Why the Wokerati Are Cultural Marxists
…to replace equality of opportunity: equality of outcome. Equating statistical disparity with discrimination assumes a great lie of our time: that statistical disparities only result from discrimination. In fact, there…
Farewell to Affirmative Action?
…the recent referenda preserving prohibitions against racial preference reveal. Justice Powell let the camel’s nose of diversity under the anti-discrimination tent by discarding Title VI’s categorical prohibition of racial discrimination…
Virginia Attorney General’s Office: Selective Admissions Are Racist
…of discrimination that likely does not apply to school systems, and was based on an apples-to-oranges comparison. The finding of discrimination doesn’t claim that individual black and Hispanic students were…
Surprise! Americans Oppose Discrimination
…they suffered an unexpected but major shellacking in the House and appear not to have regained the Senate. A noteworthy, important exception is the hearty band of Asian Americans and…
Goodbye America, Hello Woketopia
…of the list for admissions, hiring, funding, promotions, and other benefits— and always “included.” If you belong to one of the despised classes—males, whites, Asians, Christians, Jews, heterosexuals, able bodied,…
Racism: What It Is and What It Is Not (Part III)
…institutional racism in their discrimination against high-scoring white and Asian applicants. In introductory statistics, the concept of variability is just as important when understanding score distributions. Thus, a second and…
Loudoun County, Va., Racially Discriminates and Cracks Down on Conservative Teachers
…discrimination. As the appeals court in Richmond has explained, such a “disparity does not, by itself, constitute discrimination.” (Belk v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (2001)). Indeed, banning all disproportionality is…
Bleemer Blooper: How UC is Using Fake Research to Promote Prop. 16
…all pigments have been seething ever since. After one failed attempt in 2014 to repeal Prop. 209 was thwarted by angry Asian American groups, progressives have succeeded in placing a…
Anti-Racism’s Threat to Academic Freedom
…it is racist. . . . The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination…
The Invention of ‘Systemic Racism’
…factor, radical sociologists invented “systemic racism,” which is alleged to be “societal” bigotry and discrimination in the absence of bigotry and discrimination by actual individuals. This is how it is…
Black Lives Matter on the Ballot
…students, 39.3% of population — 63.6% of parity/equity. And then there are the Asians: in the fall of 2019, Asians were 33% of the undergraduates in the University of California…
If You Love Anti-American Riots, Thank Our Universities
…Asian Americans in medical professions and fields can then be attributed to (imaginary) discrimination in their favor, just as the Nobel Prizes for Jews can be discounted as (imaginary) discrimination…
Scheming to Revive Racial Preferences in California
…the deck is stacked against their children at universities not subject to Proposition 209. Second, the number of Asian American voters in California has increased substantially. Consequently, Asian Americans’ days…
Who Succeeds, and Why?
…cleaner, and safer occupations? Jews and East Asians, two categories of people who have suffered prejudice and discrimination in most of the history of North America, are highly overrepresented, in…
University of California Dumps SAT for Diversity
…of California system were Asian; at Berkeley, 43%. According to July 2019 census data, Asians were 15% of the California population. No one thinks that Asians are “overrepresented” in the…
Another Scheme to Justify Racial Preferences
…racial preferences given to others. The Fallacy That Discrimination and Freedom from Discrimination Are Constitutionally Indistinguishable Perhaps the most radical and disturbing fallacy of the Democratic judges’ decision is that…
Culture, Not Biology, Tears Us Apart on Race
…system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination. It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination.” It is…
The Real Differences Between Men and Women
…people of all human groupings will have similar life outcomes,” and that substantially different outcomes are the result of prejudice and discrimination. Academics who claim publicly that individual people and…
Can the Integrity of Our Colleges Be Restored?
…individuals, but as members of gender, racial, sexuality, and other categories. The rationale for this is that particular gender, racial, and sexuality categories of people are “marginalized” due to discrimination….
Tricking Voters to Accept Racial Preferences
…me, Linda Yang, one of the two leaders of Washington Asians For Equality, the group that organized the opposition to I-1000, stated that a post-election survey confirmed that a preponderance…
When 29 Courses on Black Writing Isn’t Enough at Williams
…a Feminist Life”), Asian Americans (“Reading Asian American Literature,” “Experimental Asian American Writing,” “Asian American Writing and the Visual Arts”), or politics (““Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Studies, & the Politics of…
A Duplicitous Attempt to Rescue Affirmative Action
Despite all the attention that has been devoted to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard in which a U.S. District judge in Boston recently held that Harvard’s discrimination against Asian…
Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From?
…sexual discrimination. But we know this to be false because two unpopular minorities, East Asians and Jews, are highly overrepresented in prestigious academic and professional occupations. As well, while African…
Why Harvard’s Affirmative Action Victory Should Be Overturned
The recent affirmative action opinion (discussed here) in Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University held that Harvard’s discrimination against Asians did not amount to discrimination. Despite the victory of…