Ending Anti-Asian Discrimination at Harvard: Plan B

[rangerrebew]

Ending Anti-Asian Discrimination at Harvard: Plan B
 

    By Robert Weissberg October 15, 2018
 

It is uncertain how the current lawsuit regarding Harvard’s alleged discriminate against Asian applicants will eventually turn out, but the smart money predicts little will change. After all, this is just one of many similar previous lawsuits, and racial preferences survived them all. Nor should we ignore administrative ingenuity in circumventing court orders. At most, Harvard and other elite schools will admit a handful more Asian applicants and hold their tongues in describing these youngsters as boring, plain vanilla dullards who add little to the school’s vital diversity.

The Court’s likely reluctance to flat out ban racial discrimination hardly settles the issue. The legal strategy may end, but the battle can continue through other means. Let me advise the parents of Asian applicants—the Tiger Moms—to implement a Plan B: revamp junior into something other than the stereotypical nerd who, supposedly, adds zero to campus diversity. Yes, junior will remain an academic grind majoring in molecular biology not Gender Studies, but no more stereotypical nerdiness. Harvard may still discriminate, but it will have to be more ingenious.

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/10/15/ending-anti-asian-discrimination-at-harvard-plan-b/

[Fishrrman]

Things could change if a case of discrimination like this got bumped up to the Supreme Court.

Particularly after Ruth Ginsburg gets replaced...

[truth_seeker]

California passed propositions (Prop 209) to end affirmative action in college admissions.

The schools and courts and subsequent liberal dynasties have effectively ignored this law, as they have other sensible propositions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Connerly

I had previously planned moving to Arizona when it got too bad.

Alas Arizona too, reflects demographics driven political demographics.

[Fishrrman]

Truth_seeker wrote:
"I had previously planned moving to Arizona when it got too bad."

That ain't such a good idea any more (look at their new "Senator"). Arizona is now a "purple state", slowly (but inevitably) turning blue as have California and New Mexico, too.

If you want to go where things will remain "least bad, for the longest", I'd pick Utah or Wyoming.

Or perhaps the very southwest corner of South Dakota (which seems to get different weather than most of the rest of the state).