Just like the children they are, intellectually, Democrats/Liberals/Progressives believe that good intentions are superior to good results.
Affirmative Action, especially when it is applied to college admissions is a terrible plan.
Case in point, Dr. Patrick Chavis.
“Chavis received a degree of fame through the quest of Allan Bakke to gain admission to the medical school at the University of California-Davis in the 1970s. The medical school rejected the application of Bakke, who was white, but accepted five black applicants, including Dr. Chavis, who had lower test scores and lower college grades than Bakke. The five won admission under a special racial-preference quota.
…Chavis lost his medical license in 1997. He had switched his practice from ob-gyn to cosmetic surgery, including liposuction, areas in which he met with difficulties and was accused of malpractice.
An administrative law judge found Dr. Chavis guilty of gross negligence and incompetence in the treatment of three women, one of whom died, and the California medical board suspended his license, saying he had an "inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a physician."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...is-dies/821232fc-42a4-495c-a65b-0625cd709b6a/
Were it not for the real racism, creating different classes of people based on the color of their skin, at least on patient would still be alive.
This is retarded. We have 243 years of unqualified whites with the same results.
Your premise has no merit. I'm sure you think Ben Carson is a great man, affirmative action provided him his chance. I'm sure you love Thomas Sowell, affirmative action helped him. And the next time you post lunacy, look in the mirror because your ass is a beneficiary of affirmative action.
You are in here playing to white racism like the little Asian mascot whites want you to be.
Gaps in the Debate About Asian Americans and Affirmative Action at Harvard
A high-profile federal
lawsuit alleging that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans could eventually give a conservative Supreme Court the opportunity to strike down affirmative action. Spearheaded by anti-affirmative action legal strategist
Edward Blum, the lawsuit—brought by a group called Students for Fair Admissions—claims that Harvard illegally discriminates against Asian American applicants by limiting their admissions numbers each year. Harvard, however,
denies the allegations. By advancing a false narrative that affirmative action is damaging to Asian American college applicants, this headline-grabbing case is undermining efforts to promote access to higher education for marginalized students.
The truth about Asian Americans and affirmative action
Contrary to the model minority myth, many Asian Americans stand to benefit from affirmative action. Asian American communities face factors that play into low college attainment, including poverty and a lack of access to high-quality K-12 education. According to the
2016 Post-Election National Asian American Survey, 57 percent of Cambodian Americans and 53 percent of Hmong Americans say that there is a “very serious” problem with the quality of their children’s schools. And because of shifting U.S. immigration patterns and policies, the income gaps among Asian American ethnic communities are the
largest among all racial groups. Southeast Asian Americans, for example, experience poverty at
rates higher than the 11 percent national average for all Americans.
These disparities highlight the necessity of affirmative action and race-conscious admission practices for all students of color. While
some commentary about the Harvard case has given the impression that Asian Americans are against affirmative action, in actuality, the majority of the Asian American community supports race-conscious admission policies. According to an AAPI Data
survey, almost two-thirds of Asian American respondents support affirmative action, and many Asian American organizations have
banded together to affirm their support for race-conscious admissions policies in light of the Harvard case. The AAPI Data survey also shows that opposition to affirmative action is highest among Chinese American respondents in comparison to other subgroups. While a definite cause of this trend is not yet known,
misinformation spread via certain social media platforms popular with first-generation Chinese immigrants in America may contribute.
The Asian American community encompasses diverse experiences and needs that the group suing Harvard conveniently ignores. Lumping all Asian Americans together does not provide an accurate, nuanced picture of the entire group.
Gaps in the Debate About Asian Americans and Affirmative Action at Harvard - Center for American Progress
Many Asian Americans Benefit From Affirmative Action
Missing Elements in Debate About Affirmative Action and Asian-American Students
It is perhaps no coincidence that Edward Blum, Abigail Fisher’s adviser and the executive director of the
Project on Fair Representation, is the one leading the most recent court challenge to affirmative action, the lawsuit challenging Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policy. What is different about the
Harvard lawsuit is that the lead plaintiff in the case is not a white student but Asian-American.
Many Asian Americans Benefit From Affirmative Action
I’m Asian-American, and I support affirmative action
The vast majority of Asian-Americans historically have and continue to
support affirmative action, a policy extending crucial access to higher education for marginalized groups who have been historically barred from attending colleges and universities.
But recently, a lawsuit channeling the anxieties of Asian-Americans who face daunting acceptance rates at selective schools has
made headlines. The group suing Harvard, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), consists of more than a dozen Asian-Americans who have been denied admission to the university. SFFA challenges the use of race conscious admissions, alleging that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants by giving preference to other minority racial groups. Similar cases are happening at Yale, UNC and
other schools.
SFFA is an organization created by Edward Blum, a conservative activist who opposes any law or policy that has anything to do with race, and whose legacy is attacking civil rights protections.
Blum was the chief architect of
Fisher v. University of Texas, which challenged race conscious admissions, alleging that increasing diversity denied a white woman’s admission. When his case failed and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Texas, Blum decided to spend the next few years
cherry picking the perfect group to act as a racial wedge: a group of Asian-Americans who felt wronged by admissions.
This case’s aim is to dismantle affirmative action, and the strategic use of Asian-Americans rings all too familiar.
This is only the latest embrace of the
model minority myth, weaponizing our oppression and pitting Asian-Americans against other people of color.
The model minority myth isn’t just about Asians being portrayed as quiet and nerdy in Hollywood. Its
intentional construction by white conservatives served a specific purpose: using the relative ‘success’ of highly educated and wealthy Asian-Americans to attribute Black failure as a matter of personal choice. It argues that Blacks should just ‘work harder’ like Asians, systematically denying the existence of any racial inequality and discrimination. And thus, the racially-gaslighting mindset was born: ‘If they made it, why can’t you?’
It’s no coincidence that this lawsuit aiming to dismantle affirmative action is painting the same portrait. At the center of SFFA’s arguments is the notion that model, hard working Asian-Americans are losing seats to undeserving Blacks and Latinos.
Yet the fundamental notion that Blacks and Latinos are taking Asian-American seats through affirmative action is
patently false and racist. A study shows that removing affirmative action will give Asian-Americans
no significant advantage, and will instead drastically harm Black, Latino, and Native American students.
Few groups have benefited more from affirmative action than Asian-Americans. In the 1970s, we were considered an ‘underrepresented minority’ to be
targeted in higher education. Affirmative action first opened the doors for us, and we are now
four times better represented at elite universities than our national population, the largest growth of any ethnic group.
And even today, studies demonstrate that less privileged Asian-Americans such as “Southeast Asians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and low-income Asian-Americans”
continue to benefit from affirmative action. The model minority myth only serves to mask these realities.
Asian-Americans concerned about discrimination in college admissions should instead take aim at a policy that demonstrably benefits the privileged at the expense of almost all non-white applicants: legacy admissions.
I’m Asian-American, and I support affirmative action
