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.
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