…people of all human groupings will have similar life outcomes,” and that substantially different outcomes are the result of prejudice and discrimination. Academics who claim publicly that individual people and…
…individuals, but as members of gender, racial, sexuality, and other categories. The rationale for this is that particular gender, racial, and sexuality categories of people are “marginalized” due to discrimination….
…me, Linda Yang, one of the two leaders of Washington Asians For Equality, the group that organized the opposition to I-1000, stated that a post-election survey confirmed that a preponderance…
…a Feminist Life”), Asian Americans (“Reading Asian American Literature,” “Experimental Asian American Writing,” “Asian American Writing and the Visual Arts”), or politics (““Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Studies, & the Politics of…
Despite all the attention that has been devoted to Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard in which a U.S. District judge in Boston recently held that Harvard’s discrimination against Asian…
…sexual discrimination. But we know this to be false because two unpopular minorities, East Asians and Jews, are highly overrepresented in prestigious academic and professional occupations. As well, while African…
The recent affirmative action opinion (discussed here) in Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University held that Harvard’s discrimination against Asians did not amount to discrimination. Despite the victory of…
…the plaintiffs claimed that affirmative action preferences awarded to blacks and Hispanics amounted to illegal discrimination against Asians. It’s a doozy, by which I mean it’s both hard to swallow…
In the Summer 2019 issue of Cato Institute’s Regulation magazine, Professor Dennis Weisman of Kansas State University offers a benign view of college admissions preferences. In “What Constitutes ‘Discrimination’ in…
…of blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. An Asian-American group is suing Harvard University for discrimination and is taking similar actions against the University of North Carolina and the University of…
…of Donald Trump supporters as “a basket of deplorables” who were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.” Clinton was not talking about Trump’s black, Asian, and Hispanic supporters; she…
…owner in the case where he was accused of illegal discrimination for not making a cake for a gay wedding. The Daily Wire captured the early details. The Outlaws declared…
…among the following: Students For Fair Admissions suing Harvard for discrimination against Asians. Harvard’s Admitted Class Has Record Share of Asian Americans. “Last week, Harvard announced the results of the…
…of suffering bigotry and discrimination, Asian American and Jewish Americans are highly overrepresented in academia and other professions. This is not because they are “privileged,” as “social justice” theory proclaims,…
Title IX, passed in 1972, seems like a simple enough federal civil rights law. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in higher education at colleges and universities that…
…that requires reducing the number of either whites or Asians. It chose Asians. That, quite simply, is how “diversity” works. Diversity-justified discrimination is, as progressives usually insist in other contexts,…
…of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education to allow the transfer of two Asian-American elementary school students (actually, they were only half Asian) because doing so would reduce the…
…White males in 2016” and “the same is also true for Asian American males,” but “among White, Hispanic and African American females, engineering was the eighteenth largest field of study.”…
…“As it has in Malaysia, affirmative action continues to stoke racial and ethnic tensions in the U.S., especially in education. Harvard is being sued for discrimination against Asian applicants. The…
…recommendation,” adding that “it was implausible that Harvard’s 40-member admissions committee, some of whom were Asian-Americans, would conclude that Asian-American applicants were less personable than other races.” Since the evidence…
…tests to replace old “racist” ones might narrow gaps sufficient for judges to conclude “close enough” to escape the verdict of racial discrimination. For fans of preferences, this quest is…
…Harvard’s lawyers (or perhaps paralegals). He offers, for example, extensive criticism of Richard Kahlenberg’s testimony last week arguing that Harvard could reduce discrimination against Asians while still preserving racial diversity…
…the colorblind principle in favor of a host of policies thought to be good for blacks. If discrimination is not wrong, in short, what’s wrong with discrimination against Asians or…
…Asian-American applicants, and perhaps others, equitably. The SFFA plaintiffs claim Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants, and others, every which way from Sunday, but it is not clear whether they are…
…involve the familiar after-school cram academies long favored by Asians with names like GPS Academy or Elite Academy. They are ubiquitous in Asian neighborhoods and even attract many non-Asians. Plan…
…equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, sex, age or mental or physical…
…Asian caste system and the African tribal system. So too, problems of backwardness and corruption in countries once, decades ago, colonies continue to be blamed on past Western imperialism. The…
…proved unlawful racial discrimination against white and Asian applicants in Gratz v. Bollinger, CIR and its clients were the subject of unremitting negative press coverage, such as a vitriolic personal…
…“Swim upstream,” of course, should have set off McArdle’s euphemism alarm, since it hardly disguises the outright racial discrimination against Asian applicants. So, for that matter, should “race-conscious,” since the…
…Asians, and 2) insofar as we do discriminate against Asians, it’s legal. Leaving the legal claim aside, given the magnitude of the disadvantage Asian applicants face because of Harvard’s negative…