Posted on 08/06/2017 6:16:42 PM PDT by TigerClaws
More than half a century after the “I have a dream...” speech we’re going to start judging “not on the color of...skin but on the content of ...character”.
FINALLY!
MAGA!
Yes. The Ivies cherry-pick those relatively few, high-acheiving black kids who do not come from the inner city. I knew a boy, child of Nigerian doctors, who did well at school and did well on SAT's - had offers to 5 Ivies. I knew several Chinese boys, same year, who had better grades and SATs, and didn't get accepted to even one Ivy.
I have several close friends who are "mixed" married couples. One spouse is an American-born white person and the other is of European descent but was born in Latin America. Most of their kids are so fair-skinned that they make Scandinavians look swarthy, but you can be damn sure they're checking off that "Hispanic" box when it comes time for college admissions and job applications.
Personally, I think this is the kind of thing that will put an end to affirmative action faster than any legislation or court ruling.
And what makes the Admissions office think that diverse skin tones means diverse perspectives?
They should be recruiting traditionalist Catholics and Orthodox Christians and Jews in that case, Fundamentalists, conservative Evangelicals and Alt-Rights. By which I mean, undergraduates to the right of the RNC and National Review.
63% — Asian student college graduation rate
62% — White college graduation rate
46% — Hispanic college graduation rate
39% — Black college graduation rate
They just keep packing colleges with black and Hispanic students most of whom are doomed to fail because they don’t have college level study habits and math and reading skills.
The problem is not shoving unprepared minorities through college so they can just drop out. The problem is preparing black and Hispanic high schools by instilling the skills and study habits they need to succeed in college.
But liberals think any outcome can be forced through compassion. They are so flaming stupid. Conservatives live in the real worlds and realize it is not compassionate to take unprepared people and set them up to fail in college where they don’t yet belong without remedial skills training.
Liberals often start off well but eventually ruin everything they touch.
Source: For the First Time, Most of Harvard’s Incoming Class Is Non-White
The quality of Ivy League graduates has taken an extreme nose dive over the last few decades. This is a big part of the reason why.
“The difference is that they have been doing it so they can unlawfully discriminate for blacks and against non-blacks.”
This is true. They let in a guy from Occidental College and his grades have never been viewed by anyone publicly so as to judge his qualifications. In fact, the guy may have claimed to be an import thereby gaining some extra points. This guy subsequently entered the Law School and became the Editor of the Law Review, all under very shady circumstances.
Our new, enlightened dear NWO leaders have graciously created the new position of “kapo” for those Europeans who wish extra privileges and a chance to delay their own appointment with the crematorium ovens if they are willing to prey upon their own people.
I used to think it was dishonest and maybe slightly immoral to do something like that. It still bothers me greatly, but now I am more inclined to think it is foolish not to.
A sad state of affairs. Drain the swamp. Prosecute the referees who aid and abet the cheaters.
Lotta talk on minority admission rates.
No mention of minority graduation rates.
Getting in and taking on the debt is the easy part.
Who cares, if that's the case. It only helps expose the whole thing as a farce anyway.
Excellent point.
This seems to be a common democrat tactic. They change the rules of the game, then get mad when the other team wins by playing by those rules.
Think of the billions of tax dollars spent financing these ill-prepared students before they drop out of the colleges that should not have admitted them.
Diversity = discrimination against white males.
“This is true. They let in a guy from Occidental College and his grades have never been viewed by anyone publicly so as to judge his qualifications. In fact, the guy may have claimed to be an import thereby gaining some extra points. This guy subsequently entered the Law School and became the Editor of the Law Review, all under very shady circumstances.”
So, whatever became of him? Probably chasing ambulances in Las Vegas now! ;)
... their institutions will no longer even be considered high quality in a few years.
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As a Manager at a major defense contractor in the ‘80s-’90s, I had to interview job candidates sent to me by the idiots in HR. ...Those from Stanford, Harvard, etc., applying for jobs always had salary requirements above what was being paid to people with 15 years of experience in our discipline that had Supervisory responsibility.
The fools had been hoodwinked by the hype from their schools that they could command top dollar on the job market.
At one time in history, the Ivies may have been considered top notch. That’s no longer true! The schools now care more about getting those huge tuition/housing dollars and grants from the government than they do about any of the students.
I had a co-worker admit to me that, because our HR dept. was stupid enough to include a block on the job application that said “Native American”, he checked that block.
He was not an American Indian. The stupid HR and PC people don’t understand that everyone born in America is a Native American.
I believe that helped him achieve some promotions, however.
I for one am ready to sit back and watch the show. I'm not the one who will be wearing a berka or being whipped for “being out of place”.
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