The Inequity of Diversity
A new study of admissions at elite colleges by Princeton sociologists Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford is attracting a lot of attention at Steve Sailer's website and elsewhere on the internet. Deservedly so, since the study clearly shows that "diversity" in college admissions is nothing more than a code word for systematic discrimination against whites. According to Espenshade and Radford, to have the same chance of admission as a black applicant with an SAT score of 1100, an Hispanic applicant would need to score 1230, a white applicant 1410, and an Asian applicant 1550.
It's even worse for working-class and rural whites. Compared to working-class whites with comparable credentials, a working-class Asian applicant is seven times more likely to be admitted, a working-class Hispanic eight times more likely to be admitted, and a working-class black ten times more likely. And although extracurricular activities generally improve the chance of admission, participation in such activities as high-school ROTC, 4-H, and Future Farmers of America actually decrease the chance of being admitted.
This study is just another reminder that working-class whites are disdained by our elites and discriminated against with impunity, a result that seems especially inequitable when one remembers the achievements of such as Alvin York and Audie Murphy. Of course, I suspect that most Ivy League admissions officers have never heard of Alvin York or Audie Murphy, and would be appalled by them if they had.
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It is indeed bad for European Americans. And in addition to the anti-white admissions racket, there's the scholarship racket:
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/02/02/bill-gates-scholarships-exclude-white-kids/
But why working class whites?
Is it part of a general working class hatred, or part of a general white hatred, or is it only just this particular combination?
My two oldest sons met the challenge and won the lottery in being selected. Sure the admissions procedure is a racket run by the same folks who gave us Bill Clinton, Al Gore, G.W.Bush, and Barack Obama. Duh...!!!! So when did that obvious and old fact become news? The real disappointement for me in the expensive Ivy League is the poor quality of their education.
And if you don't want to take my word for it, here is a poem from a man who knew the "Progress of Poetry," back East!!
On a midnight cool and clammy,
once I hear on radio,
festivaling for the money,
literati with banjo.
I heard the voice of God announce
that *"Allen" would progress
among the kneeling audience
absolving and would bless.
How vainly men do sacralize
sententious novelty
and in ignorance disprize
the Great Anthology.
Take up the book and read again
of Hector and Andromache,
Acheilles and his mother when
they walked the sounding sea,
and Helen coming down the stairs
who sees Odysseus
in startled adolescent eyes
star-struck Telemachus.
*"Allen", I suspect was Ginsburg, the rotten beat poet who was all the rage back in the day.
"Diversity" is a code word for discrimination against whites in general, not just with regard to college admissions. (That is, unless the white person happens to be homosexual. Homosexuals are allowed under most "diversity" regimes.). I still say the solution is this: All white/European Americans should say the hell with it and pack up. We will no longer pay the taxes, fight the wars, govern the country, run the businesses and pay the payrolls, fight the bureaucracy, etc. Let the minorities have it. Just be ready to move out of Dodge quickly once they have turned the entire country into Gary, Indiana or Detroit. That shouldn't take too long.
You needn't merely suspect it, Tom.
If anyone at Harvard ever researched Audie Murphy and learned something about him, after they woke up from the vapors, they would go on a systematic campaign to remove his name from any text or history book on campus.
That assumes, of course, that any book in Harvard's library mentions Audie Murphy.
Well, Robert, I'm glad for you and your sons that they won the lottery and got what they wanted. But there is a fresh crop of uninformed parents and students being robbed every year, and we can't allow this to go on. Articles like Piatak's and Sailer's are necessary for keeping this issue warm.
When my two sons are old enough to go to college, (if they haven't taken up honest work such as plumbing or logging before that time) if this kind of organized crime is still going on, I may give 'em a taste of their old time '60s religion. Campus takeover, anyone?
But isn't the point of AA to systematically discriminate against whites? I don't understand why the findings are surprising. Yes, AA is often dressed up as some sort of long overdue correction of injustice, but everyone knows it's really just institutional racism, so why are we surprised when it produces an outcome that looks like what you might get if you institutionalized racism? What did we expect here?
Also, am I the only one that finds private, elite colleges to be a giant waste of money?
Mr. Weber,
I never doubted that affirmative action resulted in discrimination against whites, but I think many people believe that its impact is minor and that it only comes into play when the white candidate is only marginally more qualified, if at all. This study clearly shows that that comfortable myth, used to justify and rationalize affirmative action, is false. Then there is the class angle, which really drives home how phony the "diversity" rhetoric is. Finally, Mr. Jacobi is right: highlighting stories like this helps keep the issue alive.
A two-way problem exists however.
If a given working class white was rejected from an Ivy League college on the basis of his background, he was discriminated.
But if a given working class white was admitted into an Ivy League college, then he would have ended up as the same as the rest of the tradition-hating elite.
Mr. Sanjay,
You have hit upon what Lord Tennyson described as the two great tragedies of life: One is to lose your hearts desire and the other is to get it. One of the purposes of college is to get to know the generation of which one is only a part. The Ivy League in its admission procedures, limits every generation to the feckless, hellish, arrogant, minds of change and decadence while the permament and perennial aspects of humanity go completely unnoticed and ignored.
One reason the political and cultural conversations are so chic and pc today is because we have managed to narrow the human horizon by expanding the atomist individual and his rights into a religion of spirits that leave him lonely, arrogant, unlovely and what St. Augustine descibed as that perpetual restless heart that seeks an eternity where "everyman" has his own way forever. To the traditional Westerner such a disordered chaos has always been recognized as the classical definition of hell. We of course call it by the demonic term of "free thinker" because it contains partial truths like the Witches brew in Shakespeare's play.
R. Cort Kirkwood has a chapter on Audie Murphy in his book, "Real Men."
Kids excluded from Harvard should be glad they missed the most thorough P.C. brainwashing around.
One voice of working class and rural whites.
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Sen. Webb calls for end to most affirmative action programs, criticizes 'myth' of white dominance
Updated 4:21 p.m.
Just as race issues have returned to the forefront of political debate, Virginia Sen. James Webb (D) on Friday reiterated his opposition to some affirmative action programs and suggested that white Americans are being "marginalized" by current government policies.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege," Webb writes: "Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/07/webb_criticizes_affirmative_ac.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpisrc=nl_buzz
"One voice of working class and rural whites."
Too bad he votes with the Democrats on just about all the rest of the evil party's agenda. What a disappointment he has turned out to be.
Take heart. A house divided against itself cannot stand. So this sort of institutionalized injustice - in the name of justice - cannot last, because it is a cancer that kills the host body that sustains it.
This is scarcely consolation if you happen to be a cells in that body. But it's still consolation.