How Harvard’s Dishonesty About Its Racial Discrimination Will Fuel Populism: The lesson this elite university and others really teach is that working hard and playing by the rules are for the little people, not the future Masters of the Universe.
The first layer of dishonesty is inherent in Harvard’s choice to use race as a factor in deciding which students to admit.
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The second layer of dishonesty ... Nothing could be easier than to dress up a point system – or a racial quota, for that matter – as an ‘individualized assessment.’”
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The third layer of dishonesty ... Harvard and other elite institutions have created a landscape in which tutors and college counselors encourage Asian-American kids to avoid sounding “too Asian” in their applications, to omit activities like playing the violin. Such institutions claim to be acting with the grand and benevolent intent of advancing social justice. Harvard stands accused of pursuing that intent by relying on the most obvious racial stereotyping of Asian-American kids as dull, nerdy grinds.
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The fourth layer of dishonesty arises from the fact that Asian-Americans are the demographic apparently suffering from this supposedly benign discrimination.
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Yet Harvard seems to hold Asian-Americans’ hard work against them. It is this facet of Harvard’s policy that has led many to recall Harvard’s history of discrimination against Jews, which lasted until the 1960s.
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What effect will these accumulated levels of dishonesty have on our political discourse? ... the lawsuit against Harvard, however it ends, has exposed to the general public the layers of dishonesty in which Harvard and other elite institutions engage in the cause of social justice.
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The second layer of dishonesty ... Nothing could be easier than to dress up a point system – or a racial quota, for that matter – as an ‘individualized assessment.’”
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The third layer of dishonesty ... Harvard and other elite institutions have created a landscape in which tutors and college counselors encourage Asian-American kids to avoid sounding “too Asian” in their applications, to omit activities like playing the violin. Such institutions claim to be acting with the grand and benevolent intent of advancing social justice. Harvard stands accused of pursuing that intent by relying on the most obvious racial stereotyping of Asian-American kids as dull, nerdy grinds.
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The fourth layer of dishonesty arises from the fact that Asian-Americans are the demographic apparently suffering from this supposedly benign discrimination.
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Yet Harvard seems to hold Asian-Americans’ hard work against them. It is this facet of Harvard’s policy that has led many to recall Harvard’s history of discrimination against Jews, which lasted until the 1960s.
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What effect will these accumulated levels of dishonesty have on our political discourse? ... the lawsuit against Harvard, however it ends, has exposed to the general public the layers of dishonesty in which Harvard and other elite institutions engage in the cause of social justice.
