A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday.
Yale denied the allegation, calling it “meritless” and “hasty.”
The findings detailed in a letter to the college’s attorneys Thursday mark the latest action by the Trump administration aimed at rooting out discrimination in the college application process, following complaints from students about the application process at some Ivy League colleges. The Justice Department had previously filed court papers siding with Asian American groups who had levied similar allegations against Harvard University.
The DOJ further found that Asian-American and white applicants had a one-tenth to one-fourth chance of being admitted compared to a black student with a similar academic performance.
This is absolutely disgusting and goes to the heart of why "affirmative action" is just calculated racism. Schools should be scouting talent, not "diversity". When these colleges scout diversity, they're only looking for superficial qualities: race, religion, sexuality, and so forth. None of these factors should determine admission. Nobody can help it if they are white, black, Hispanic, so it is cruel and unusual to consider such factors. To suggest that black students are somehow inferior and therefore requiring of a "leg up" is monstrously racist in my view. To punish Asian-American or white Ivy League aspirants just because of the colour of their skin is racist through and through.
This belies a deeper problem. Universities are constantly chasing after "diversity", almost always with the support of the Left. This usually means accepting people who are wholly unqualified to enter into these academic spaces. Not coincidentally, the push for diversity is positively correlated with the development of "safe spaces", "wokeness" and "cancel culture." Environments like these conduce students not to be helpful members of their society, but deranged "activists". Universities, staffed and led primarily by neo-Marxists or just outright Marxists, do not actually care about improving the education of black or Hispanic students. This Cult of Diversity exists only as a vehicle through which the Left can silence opposition towards it.
You cannot beat racism through racism. Abolish affirmative action.
What are your thoughts?