Peter Beinart's Virtue Signal

American Thinker.com ^ | November 20, 2017 | Ben Cohen

[Kaslin]

Recently, Peter Beinart took to the pages of the Atlantic to make a confession. Beinart confessed that he -- yes he -- had benefited from affirmative action. The New Republic, he claimed, had a policy of favoring well-educated white men from ivy league schools.

“I considered myself qualified. Because I’d spent years mimicking TNR’s writing style, I had the right sort of clips. But as a white man graduating from an Ivy League school, I also had the right sort of identity. It was difficult to disentangle the two. And I didn’t really try.”

“I didn’t try because the magazine afforded me extraordinary opportunity. Soon, I was not only working alongside people I revered, I was being given the chance to ascend to their level. Asking how much of their success was due to race, gender, and class -- as opposed to merit -- would have meant asking the same of myself.”

Evaluating writing and writers is inherently subjective, as E.B White wrote, “Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind?” While it’s possible Beinart benefited from being white and male, it’s clear that the New Republic was a much more widely read and better regarded publication when he worked there. Further, a large number of the writers hired by Peretz achieved tremendous professional success after leaving TNR, including Beinart himself.

While the evaluation of writing is inherently subjective, the evaluation of college applicants and civil servants is much less so. Yet “diversity” advocates strenuously oppose the most objective measure we have, standardized tests. Diversity advocates want to make applying to college more like applying to work at the New Republic, replacing grades and SATs with college essays and “holistic” admissions.

[notaliberal]

Perhaps, Peter, you should step aside and let a minority take your position!

[samadams2000]

Really ,can you make yourself more emasculated?

[17th Miss Regt]

well-educated white men from ivy league schools

Hmmm... Based on what I have seen in the news, should I believe that such critters exist?

[HotHunt]

Why doesn't he assuage his white guilt by just quitting his job so some underprivileged person who's not white or who is not ashamed of being white, can do it instead of him?

Complaining about being born white? What is wrong with these people?

My goodness. Pearl-clutchers and hand-wringers.

[Ann Archy]

He’s Jewish....he doesn’t think of himself as a White person for some odd stupid reason!

[Impy]

Only by pulling a Jenner.

[The_Media_never_lie]

“I didn’t try because the magazine afforded me extraordinary opportunity. Soon, I was not only working alongside people I revered, I was being given the chance to ascend to their level. Asking how much of their success was due to race, gender, and class -- as opposed to merit -- would have meant asking the same of myself.”

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This fool should dye his hair purple, tattoo up and get piercings, get a dish washing job at McDonald's just to make things fair, and spare us the insufferable b.s.

[x]

Recently, Peter Beinart took to the pages of the Atlantic to make a confession. Beinart confessed that he -- yes he -- had benefited from affirmative action. The New Republic, he claimed, had a policy of favoring well-educated white men from ivy league schools.

Publisher Marty Peretz did like handsome young Harvard men, but Beinart didn't really qualify as good-looking.

Peter's step-father Robert Brustein wrote for the magazine for years, so that was his in.

#Nepotism, not #Affirmativeactionforwhiteguys.