{"id":491913,"date":"2022-09-10T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/affirmative-action-hurts-asian-americans-but-the-left-just-shrugs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T15:12:14","slug":"affirmative-action-hurts-asian-americans-but-the-left-just-shrugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/affirmative-action-hurts-asian-americans-but-the-left-just-shrugs\/","title":{"rendered":"#Affirmative action hurts Asian-Americans\u2014but the left just shrugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e7f1036e8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e7f1036e8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/affirmative-action-hurts-asian-americans-but-the-left-just-shrugs\/#%E2%80%9CAffirmative_action_hurts_Asian-Americans%E2%80%94but_the_left_just_shrugs%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Affirmative action hurts Asian-Americans\u2014but the left just shrugs&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAffirmative_action_hurts_Asian-Americans%E2%80%94but_the_left_just_shrugs%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Affirmative action hurts Asian-Americans\u2014but the left just shrugs&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In her landmark 2003 opinion legalizing affirmative action in Grutter v. Bollinger, Sandra Day O\u2019Connor famously wrote, \u201cThe Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This is the only time I can think of when the Supreme Court assigned an expiration date to a constitutional right. We\u2019re coming up on Justice O\u2019Connor\u2019s deadline and \u2014 right on schedule \u2014 the Supreme Court is poised to end affirmative action in lawsuits against <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/aug\/02\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-harvard\">Harvard University<\/a> and the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/admissions\/article\/2022\/08\/01\/briefs-filed-supreme-court-defending-affirmative-action\">University of North Carolina<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But the legal argument is not that affirmative action is unnecessary. It\u2019s that it causes schools to actively discriminate against Asian <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>licants. The evidence is infuriatingly strong. <\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/asianamericanforeducation.org\/en\/issue\/discrimination-on-admissions\/\">2009 study<\/a> by Princeton professor Thomas Espenshade found that Asian applicants had to score 140 points higher than white ones on the SAT to have the same chance of admission to elite colleges, 270 points higher than Hispanic applicants, and 450 points higher than black ones. Progressives usually argue that Espenshade himself said his evidence isn\u2019t a smoking gun, because Asian applicants are possibly worse than other races on all the soft factors beyond GPAs and test scores. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/harvard-banners.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Limiting students by race or ethnicity is nothing new for Harvard; in the 1920s, the university infamous capped the number of Jewish students allowed to attend. \" class=\"wp-image-23788819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/harvard-banners.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/harvard-banners.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/harvard-banners.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Limiting students by race or ethnicity is nothing new for Harvard; in the 1920s, the university infamously capped the number of Jewish students allowed to attend. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but notice that liberals don\u2019t demand a smoking gun when inquiring into racism against other ethnicities. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of funny and sad that our antiracist society buys the argument that elite colleges aren\u2019t discriminating against Asians because we\u2019re just cowardly, unlikeable, unkind worker drones who aren\u2019t leaders. It\u2019s common knowledge that this is the exact same argument that Harvard made when it discriminated against Jews almost a century ago. Harvard wanted to reduce its population of Jewish students from 25- to 15%. The university called that \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commentary.org\/articles\/stephen-steinberg\/how-jewish-quotas-began\/\">the Jewish problem<\/a>.\u201d To accomplish this without imposing a strict quota, it introduced \u201ccharacter\u201d requirements like leadership, which it found Jewish applicants consistently fell short on. It also introduced legacy admissions to further address its Jewish problem.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/university-classroom.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A 2009 study suggested that Asian applicants to elite colleges would need SAT scores 450 points higher than black students for the same chance at admission. \" class=\"wp-image-23788826\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/university-classroom.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/university-classroom.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/university-classroom.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/university-classroom.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/university-classroom.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>A 2009 study suggested that Asian applicants to elite colleges would need SAT scores 450 points higher than black students for the same chance at admission. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/covid-vaccine.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"New York, Utah and Minnesota all allocated scarce lifesaving COVID-19 treatments on the basis of race, prioritizing nonwhite people above white ones.\" class=\"wp-image-23788833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/covid-vaccine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/covid-vaccine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/covid-vaccine.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York, Utah and Minnesota all allocated scarce lifesaving COVID-19 treatments on the basis of race, prioritizing nonwhite people above white ones.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don\u2019t think we need to bring in Sherlock Holmes on this one. Harvard is discriminating against Asian applicants in exactly the same way it did against Jewish ones, for exactly the same reasons, with exactly the same results, and exactly the same justifications. But when you look at <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> analysis of the issue, you get a dozen progressive think pieces about how calling this \u201cracism\u201d is just a conservative talking point.<\/p>\n<p>Society seems to be going in the direction of handing out education, jobs, honors and even medical treatment on the basis of race. New York, Utah and Minnesota <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/02\/race-alone-should-not-be-used-to-allocate-scarce-covid-19-treatments\/\">all allocated<\/a> scarce lifesaving COVID-19 treatments on the basis of race, explicitly prioritizing nonwhite people above white ones on the CDC\u2019s recommendation. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/oakland-gay-pride-festival.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Oakland, Calif., embraced the notion of \u201cuniversal basic income\u201d with a program offering $500 to low-income families each month. White families were initially not allowed to apply. \" class=\"wp-image-23788848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/oakland-gay-pride-festival.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/oakland-gay-pride-festival.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/oakland-gay-pride-festival.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Oakland, Calif., embraced the notion of \u201cuniversal basic income\u201d with a program offering $500 to low-income families each month. White families were initially not allowed to apply. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Race-based victim status isn\u2019t just a shortcut to education and lifesaving care these days. It\u2019s also becoming a qualification for government money. In March 2021, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandca.gov\/news\/2021\/oakland-guaranteed-income-pilot-now-accepting-east-oakland-applications\">Oakland announced<\/a> to great fanfare that it was launching a pilot program testing universal basic income, distributing $500 a month to 600 low-income families for eighteen months. There\u2019s a catch: white people weren\u2019t eligible to apply. Officials and media justified this discrimination by appealing to gaps in median wealth between races; the editorial board of the Daily Californian <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2021\/04\/16\/the-radical-potential-of-guaranteed-income-based-on-race\/\">breathlessly praised<\/a>, \u201cThe radical potential of guaranteed income based on race.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/nation-of-victimes.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit and the Path Back to Excellence by Vivek Ramaswamy\" class=\"wp-image-23788851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/nation-of-victimes.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/nation-of-victimes.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/nation-of-victimes.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/nation-of-victimes.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>But individuals are not mere representatives of their race, and a poor black family and a poor white one with the same amount of money are equally poor no matter what\u2019s happening to the median white and black family. As the threat of lawsuits rolled in, Oakland quietly changed its eligibility requirements to say that people of all races are permitted to apply to the program, though its focus is still on helping \u201cBIPOC\u201d people.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly a fig leaf to hide the city\u2019s naked discrimination from the equal protection clause of the US Constitution. I don\u2019t think the Constitution will be so easily fooled, and I hope the same is true for today\u2019s judges who interpret it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vivek Ramaswamy is the founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management. This essay is adapted from his book \u201cNation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence,\u201d to be published by Hachette Book Group on September 13. \u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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