34% of White College Students Lied about their Race to Improve Chances of Admission, Financial Aid Benefits

Intelligent ^ | 2021

[liberalh8ter]

I'm more NA than that and I've never checked that box. I'm rethinking that, though.

[ealgeone]

And if there are they’re dumb as rocks.

[pas]

I was born a poor black child.

[alexander_busek]

Who are they to say what somebody’s race is?

Exactly!

The article completely side-steps the very core question of: HOW CAN YOU TELL THAT THEY ARE "LYING?"

Without invading their privacy and requiring them to submit to a gene test, how could they possibly determine that they are lying?

Also: "Lying" implies a "bad faith" statement. But perhaps the students genuinely believed what they said.

Regards,

[Betty Jane]

I know 2 brothers whose father is white and mother Filipino. The older marked he was Asian and white; the younger marked Hispanic. The older was the better student by far. The younger got the better college scholarships.

[kosciusko51]

34% of White College Students Lied about their Self-identified as another Race to Improve Chances of Admission, Financial Aid Benefits

The title says it like it is a bad thing, when we should be celebrating their courage... /s

[dfwgator]

[alexander_busek]

Not a smidgen of NA blood. I never checked that box again.

For heaven's sake: WHY NOT?

By not checking the box, you are tacitly supporting a racist system.

Remember when the inhabitants - including crowned heads - of Nazi-occupied Denmark all wore "Yellow Stars" after the Nazis demanded that Jews wear them?

Regards,

[AppyPappy]

We have a Norwegian engineering professor who is head of the Latino faculty. His mother is from Latin America

[Flick Lives]

Scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as race.

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True. It was basically “invented”. One could just as well try to group people by height, eye color, or having attached or detached earlobes.

[Maskot]

According to Rachel Dolezal and Shaun “talcum x” King, it’s ok if you’re on the leftie side of the spectrum only. Notice we’ve not seen those two winners spouting off their race BS in quite a while….

[Alberta's Child]

They didn’t lie. It is “settled law” in the U.S. that you can identify as whatever the hell you want.

[rlmorel]

I think everyone should lie about it.

[AZJeep]

I am long pass college, but I have started filling in “Other” for race in questionnaires.
I do not get anything out of it, I just want to mess up those Critical racists.
I think everybody should do it.
That would put them out of business.

[Jemian]

If they were born on US soil, they are, in fact, native Americans. That would not be lying.

[TxAg1981]

The Marxists should celebrate this. These "white" folks are just self-identifying as black, brown, POC, etc.
Males can go into female bathrooms as long as they self-identify as trans, female, PBTQXYZ etc.
Why is the author surprised or upset with this? Wasn't this the goal?

[GnuThere]

I SHOULD have always checked the Native American box in the days before DNA testing. Based on an uncle’s stories, I always thought I was 1/16th Cherokee. (DNA shows 100% UK origin.). I bet a lot of people heard similar stories.
No telling how many schools I could have gotten accepted to.

[WMarshal]

I have been working as hispanic for quite some time.

Only a fool plays a rigged game by the rules.

[silverleaf]

High cheekbones? Check!
Family lore? Check!