Posted on 03/20/2026 7:59:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Republicans cheered “colorblind” meritocracy—but in practice, affirmative action shifted opportunity from white voters to Asians, leaving the party’s base unprotected.
This is part one of a three-part series examining the Republican Party’s race-neutral ‘colorblind’ strategy and its effects on its core voters.
For decades, white Americans have voted Republican in large numbers. They donate, they volunteer, they show up in midterms. They defend the Constitution, talk about free speech, wave the flag without embarrassment. They are, by every measurable standard, the party’s backbone. And yet, if you look closely, something strange has happened. The Republican Party has built an entire political identity around defending “fairness,” “colorblindness,” and “American values.” But when you examine the actual results of its strategies, one question keeps surfacing: who, exactly, is being defended?
Take affirmative action. For years, Republicans denounced it (rightfully) as discriminatory.i They framed it as a moral outrage against meritocracy. But when they made their case publicly, they rarely spoke about discrimination against white applicants. Instead, they foregrounded Asians as the primary victims. The charitable interpretation is that this was strategic: argue on universal principles, avoid language that sounds like racial self-interest, and once race-based preferences are dismantled, everyone benefits equally. A colorblind system emerges. Merit wins. But in the end, the outcomes didn’t follow.
After Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, elite admissions did not suddenly become purely race-neutral in spirit. The Asian share rose dramatically. Black and Hispanic shares remained stable. White representation declined. As Helen Andrews noted:
Since the ruling was issued, the share of Asians in Harvard’s freshmen class has gone up, from 26 percent of the class of 2025 to 41 percent of the class of 2029, but the share of whites has gone down. White students were 47 percent of freshmen in the class of 2025 and approximately 31 percent of the classes of 2028 and 2029 (Harvard published percentages for every race but white for those years, and 8 percent of each class reported no race, making the white share a matter of inference). Black and Latino shares have stayed roughly the same, with small fluctuations.
So, Harvard did not stop discriminating by race; it simply stopped doing so against Asians. Affirmative action continues, but now it is entirely at the expense of one race instead of two.
Harvard’s own internal modeling had suggested that in a truly preference-free system, whites would have comprised a slight majority of admits.
Instead of the colorblind meritocracy Republicans so desired, what we got instead was selective recalibration.
There’s another uncomfortable data point: nonblack Democratsii show ambivalence and reluctance toward affirmative action when told it disadvantages Asian Americans. But when the same policy is framed as disadvantaging white Americans, support remains strong.
In other words, the coalition that supports race-based preferences does not oppose it as a general principle when framed as disadvantaging other groups. It adjusts its moral rhetoric based on the group affected. But worse yet, this strategy of using Asians as a political shield to achieve policy reforms is a bizarre internalization of the notion that Asians are “white-adjacent” on the part of Republicans. The reality is that Asians themselves want nothing to do with being associated with white people, considering that they see themselves as being more similar to people of color than to white Americans.
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Whites are a minority of the world population, making up 15%.
Both parties support the great replacement
“The reality is that Asians themselves want nothing to do with being associated with white people, considering that they see themselves as being more similar to people of color than to white Americans.”
Proven nonsense and discredits their whole premise. Pure anecdotal example:
White-Asian marriages are significantly more common than Black-Asian marriages in the U.S.
Intermarried Asian newlyweds in 2015 were most likely to have a white spouse (15%), with white-Asian couples being one of the most common interracial pairings. Black-Asian couples, sometimes known as “Blasian,” remain relatively rare compared to other pairings.
Key Trends and Data:
White-Asian Prevalence: In 2015, about 15% of all intermarried couples involved one Asian and one white spouse, making it a very high percentage of all interracial marriages.
Black-Asian Rarity: Black-Asian marriages (often referred to as “Blasian”) represent a very small percentage of interracial marriages, and for instance, one of the least prevalent marital combinations, especially for Black women.
Gender Differences: Asian women are more likely to intermarry, particularly with white men, compared to Asian men.
Overall Intermarriage: In 2010, 28% of Asian newlyweds married outside their race, with white partners being the most common choice (20-40% of cases) compared to Black, Hispanic, or other groups.
Subgroup Variation: Among Asian groups, Japanese and Filipinos are the most likely to marry outside their race, with high rates of pairing with white partners.
The “Blasian” trend in media on YouTube is growing but, statistically, white-Asian marriages remain much more frequent than black-asian marriages.
Instead of “GOP” - they should say “DC Uniparty”
by the “WHITE Papers Policy Institute”. 😂
All kidding aside there is much truth in what they claim. I remember how little resistance the GOP offered to the blatant racism of the White Privilege/White Fragility hucksters back in the Saint George Floyd days. Fortunately the blakkk racist insanity is fading, thanks in no small portion to PDJT2.0; black women and AWFULs have stepped up carry the rainbow flag now.
Republicans - fairness first
Democrats - proportional splits by group
Agreed.
RACISS?
There have been declines among all groups and most institutions.
Oy vey.
Seriously… everyone should watch Chris Rock’s bit about “when did white men become victims?” https://youtube.com/shorts/cynO5WtJgfs
Another bunch of whiners blaming Those People Over There on their own laziness and sloth.
Whites….Get a job or start a business and pray for God’s guidance, and stop acting like a lib.
Studying really hard is common among some Asian groups.
Among whites, studying really hard is an individual or family matter.
A high-quality society is a matter of systems. American systems are often outdated. There is not much interest in recognizing or changing that.
Man U would have been killed here for posting this in Bush era
Tried to warn the pollyannas
Many still here tune changed
Wish we still had cache function
Doubt it. It’s an ongoing process, and Harvard was just sued again.
Why do morons like this think that change of THIS magnitude can occur in one year? It took almost 100 years to eliminate discrimination against blacks before overdiscriminating in their favor for about 60 years, with the full backing of government. I think this is hot air.
I wonder how many leftist women don’t marry at all through their own self-defeating circle of behavior:
I rebel against the norm so show it physically
My weird hair, loud tats and piercings repulse men
I get upset that they find my appearance unattractive
I double down on hatred and self-disfigurement.
It’s not unlike where fat women get depressed and take it out on ice cream, which makes them fatter and more depressed.
New survey: How many leftist women are spiritually married to their cats?
It’s funny, I was reading this and realized that I never considered myself a white American. I am an American. I am as Lilly white as a person could be. But my race has never been one of my “tribes.”
No one needs to be “like me.” But this whole tribalism BS has really gotten out of hand. It should stop.
You’re an idiot
I used to feel that way too. Maybe it’s easier to do in Vermont than it is in Texas. We (whites) are a minority here
They HATE their base.
Don't be that naïve.
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