Showing posts with label Affirmative Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affirmative Action. Show all posts
Sunday, July 16, 2023

Heather Mac Donald, When Race Trumps Merit

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At Amazon, Heather Mac Donald, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives . 
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and U.N.C.

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This is really something.  I've got CNN on. There's a bit of a freak-out happening, although I haven't been over to MSNBC yet, ...

Kenny Xu, An Inconvenient Minority

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At Amazon, Kenny Xu, An Inconvenient Minority: The Ivy League Admissions Cases and the Attack on Asian American Excellence . 
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Gail Heriot and Maimon Schwarzchild, eds., How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education

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At  Amazon, Gail Heriot and Maimon Schwarzchild, eds., A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education .
Thursday, June 23, 2022

WATCH: What Do We Know About Diversity? DEI's Unknown Unknowns (With John McWhorter)

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Here's the discussion at Glenn Loury's Substack, " What do we know about the effects of DEI initiatives? In one sense, we know ...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Color-Blind Equality

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At Amazon, Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics .
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bring Back Scholastic Aptitude Test

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I saw this first at NYT , " M.I.T. Will Again Require SAT and ACT Scores ." Now from Kathryn Paige Harden, at the Atlantic , "...
Monday, July 26, 2021

The Fate of Affirmative Action

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An excellent, in-depth report, from Nicolas Lemann, at New York , " Can Affirmative Action Survive? ": 1. The History In June, 20...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Kenny Xu Interviewed

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Don't miss his new book, An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy . At Fox News:
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Affirmative Action Crushed at the Polls? Clueless California Leftists Struggle to Figure Out What Went Wrong

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Oh brother.  In 2006, Proposition 209 passed 55 percent to 45 percent (a 10-point) margin. It banned racial preferences in the state. In 202...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Latinos Now the Majority at the University of California

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This seems, umm, anticlimactic. And Michelle Malkin's got the rejoinder: They're allowed to celebrate this, but if I talk about i...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Harvard Rated Asian-Americans Lower

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I'm discussing civil rights in my American government classes this week, and I want to read and blog this blockbuster piece that was at ...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai Should Resign

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An excellent op-ed, from David Brooks, at NYT, " Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O. "

Unsettling Truth About Affirmative Action

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From Professor Jeannie Suk, at the New Yorker, " The Uncomfortable Truth About Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans ": The app...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Google Fires James Damore, Engineer Who Wrote 'Anti-Diversity' Memo

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Well, you can't have a different opinion about such things. The guy should've known that, of course. At Bloomberg, " Google F...

Google Manifesto

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I wondered what this was when tweeps were tweeting "Google manifesto." I'm like, "huh?" At Gizmodo, " Exclusi...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

Harvard Looks to Boot 'Puritans' from School Song

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Leftists will erase our entire history before their done. The problem, of course, is just because you change the lyrics doesn't change...
Monday, October 5, 2015

Discrimination Against Asian-Americans in College Admissions

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It's not a new problem, but as we get even more diverse, especially with Chinese immigrants emerging as the fastest growing immigrant gr...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The Left's Diversity Ideology Destroying Higher Education

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Here's Heather Mac Donald, whose major case study is the University of California. The discussion of U.C. San Diego's diversity bure...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Martese Johnson Arrest

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Pretty soon you won't be able to arrest a black man in America. Political correctness will demand a universal pre-amnesty from the conse...