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rooster, if you noticed schools are still able to continue policy as it
was before that trump admin. effort. Yet he'll likely take credit for,

"Now maybe they’ll let more Asians into their schools."

Harvard University's 2017 intake 'majority non-white' for first time
3 August 2017
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40812196

and never talk about anything like

Asians are being used to make the case against affirmative action. Again.

We are cast as victims in a pernicious story about race.

By Alvin Chang@[e-mail] Mar 28, 2018, 8:20am EDT

I first heard about the “penalty” my junior year of high school. I was sitting in an SAT prep class because I had barely broken 1000 on my first practice SAT. During a snack break, another Asian kid in the class said to me, “You know we have to do better than even the white kids, right?”

I had never heard affirmative action framed that way — as a “bonus” for black and brown people and a “penalty” for white and especially Asian people.

At the time, I didn’t understand just how pernicious it was to think about affirmative action in those terms. Not only does that frame gloss over the reasons why race-conscious policies are necessary; it’s also the first step toward arguing that all race-conscious policies are unfair.

But I was fed a certain story about affirmative action, so when I saw this data a few years later, it only solidified this mental model:



The data is from an influential 2009 book in which two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandra Radford, quantified how well you needed to score on your SATs to have an equal chance of admission as someone of another race. It implies that a black student who scores 1000 on her SATs would have an equal chance of admission as a white student who scores 1310 or an Asian-American student who scores 1450.
.. continued .. https://www.vox.com/2018/3/28/17031460/affirmative-action-asian-discrimination-admissions

that. Your white supremacist Hannity, your president, and you. What's the name of that comedy three? Trump takes potshots at people he works with too.

Sycophants, stooges and enablers. All cuddle-comfy in the Trump cult.