How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others [Not accepted for college?]

Mindingthecampus.com ^ | July 12, 2010 | Russell K. Nieli

[Citizen X_Area 51]

When college presidents and academic administrators pay their usual obeisance to "diversity" you know they are talking first and foremost about race.

[Citizen X_Area 51]

Diversity: another name for Affirmative Action quotas.

As one said in the interesting comments section of the article, "Affirmative action is "the bigotry of lowered expectations" - that is, nothing but softer, cuddlier racism of the vilest sort.

[cweese]

Why the excerpt from your blog?

[kittymyrib]

And after working their way through college, our white sons are at the bottom of the stack when it comes to getting a job. The white Middle Class male is treated worse than an illegal alien in this country.

[ilovesarah2012]

There should be more white college football players.

[Jack Hammer]

“Diversity” is a contemporary buzzword for Black preferences. College admissions slots and other positions given away to Blacks with inferior performance, simply to boost Black enrollments.

Meanwhile, White males are the new American ni**ers.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The box students checked off on the racial question on their application was thus shown to have an extraordinary effect on a student's chances of gaining admission to the highly competitive private schools in the NSCE database.

Everybody should just start checking off "black" and let the judicial excrement hit the rotating blades when the college tries to prove a student isn't the race she/he/it says she/he/it is.

Government has no right to discriminate by race, and it's time we stopped acting like good little sheep at the slaughterhouse.

[nmh]

This is WHY we MUST get back to pure MERIT. We now have a medical profession that "looks" like a third world country and a mentality that matches it. These are typically folks that have been pushed along based on the politically correct RACE.

I ask you this, is it worth the gamble when you have pressing medical needs to go to a politically correct person of the right "race" or would you be more comfortable going to someone who EARNED the right to be in that position?

It is pity that those who are "minorities" that are bright and earned it, aren't being trusted for good care. The odds are that the "minority" is incompetent. I use Obama as a hideous example of a "race" candidate pushed along who is incompetent and with a third world mentality.

There are other Condi Rice's out there but they are few and far between.

[dfwgator]

Everybody should just start checking off "black" and let the judicial excrement hit the rotating blades when the college tries to prove a student isn't the race she/he/it says she/he/it is.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That role was the end of his career.

[nmh]

It’s true ... worse yet even if the college or university REJECTS the politically correct “race”, there is a federal program REQUIRING the collegeor university to ACCEPT the student and PROVIDE A TUTOR paid for by the GOVERNMENT to keep them there. I am not kidding you. If you are not a politically correct “race”, THIS program is NOT available to you.

[nmh]

A black, female Hispanic would get you bonus points. Perhaps if you’re parent(s) are ILLEGAL that might be windfall of points.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Everybody should just start checking off "black" and let the judicial excrement hit the rotating blades when the college tries to prove a student isn't the race she/he/it says she/he/it is.

Likewise, every conservative should register as a Democrat and take over that party from within. Let them prove we aren't loyal Democrats, :)

[Texas resident]

Add to that the feds took over the student loan industry.
They wouldn’t politicize student loans now would they?

[forgotten man]

Any white parent who has a new baby boy should indentify the child on all school records as “Hispanic”. Tell the kid that his great grandfather came from Argentina. Many people from Argentina have non Spanish surnames. If you don’t do this the kid will be screwed forever.

[Tired of Taxes]

I was reviewing colleges last night, and "diversity" is the buzz word for anyone who is considered "non white". That doesn't mean "black" students. MOST of the colleges praised for their "diversity" are counting students from Asian countries, including India, and Spanish-speaking countries. (Meanwhile, ironically, the "historically black" colleges have been trying to recruit more white students.)

But, the newest talk isn't about "racial diversity" at all. Today it's all about the number of MALE students being lower than female students at most colleges. The talk is that colleges should raise the quota of male applicants.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Sorry affirmative action does not apply to white males.

[dsrtsage]

“Everybody should just start checking off “black” and let the judicial excrement hit the rotating blades when the college tries to prove a student isn’t the race she/he/it says she/he/it is.”

I have been saying this for years. If the university fights you on it, simply bring any textbook from their own anthropology department, and show them the page where the entire human race came from Africa.

[MrB]

Look for ideological screening to start taking hold as well.
They’re already doing so at the “ivies”.

[BenKenobi]

I’ve been one of the ‘diversity’ candidates for enrollment. I’m not going to apologise for it. I worked hard to get to where I am and I had to wade through a sea of bs to get there.

There’s some things I have a choice, and other things I don’t have a choice at all. I can’t choose to not have a disability. All I can do is work my butt off and make the most of it.

[Run262Texas]

You know, I’ve often wondered if Affirmative Action was my demise all along. I went to the University of Texas, graduated with a high GPA, took the LSAT and got a decent score, had plenty of great recommendations, etc... Applied to the school I wanted to go to TWICE and didn’t get accepted. I SAW who did get accepted and it’s alway been a thorn in my side. Based on merit alone...I was a shoe-in. This was 10 years ago and looking back, well, I’m happy with the life I’ve made for me and my family. But still, it’s the pricipal of the matter.