Thread: Harvard accused of bias against Asian-Americans

Originally Posted by reinoe

If you cared about college transcripts then I take it that you would demand them from every other president in American History in addition to every VP and loser of the presidential elections as well. However since you only demand them from Black presidents may I deduce that you also post on stormfront and neo-nazi websites where your views are more accepted? And yes, it's likely both Michelle and Barack got accepted purely on merit.

You don't seem to dispute or have a problem with Obama graduating top of his class for example. Are you implying that Harvard University working in conjuction with every one of his professors engaged in a conspiracy to change his grades and none of his classmates or administrators had a problem with this taking place?

The whole "I demand his transcripts" is just an evolution of the "I demand his birth certificate" movement that was discrediting the entire GOP's already dim reputation.

Not really.

I'd really like to see Obama's Occidental transcript and find extremely peculiar that transcript's being under lock-and-key.

Originally Posted by spud_meister

So why is that rich black person deserving of the same level of assistance offered to someone who's born poor and black?

They aren't. The rich black person's race is considered. The poor black person's race and economic background is considered.

Originally Posted by Apocalypse

Only that legacy policies are no longer the issue and the current affirmative action policies addressed in the OP have nothing to do with it.

Actually, affirmative action is about countering other admissions policies that benefit white people unequally, including legacy policies, so the policies discussed in the OP have everything to do with that. If you don't understand this, then that explains why you are so committed to your misinformed position on affirmative action - you truly have no idea what you're talking about. I almost stopped responding to you because your comments were so absurd, but now I'm glad I continued because I understand the root of the absurdity.

Originally Posted by ThePlayDrive

They're not going to win. The Supreme Court has already ruled that race can be used in the admissions process as it should be.

Where does the constitution give the SC authority to rewrite the constitution? If you want to change the constitution, you have to go thru the amending process. THINK

Originally Posted by ThePlayDrive

It's telling to me that the most complained about admissions policy is the one that helps black people. Legacy admissions, donor admissions and other admissions based on factors other than merit which primarily benefit upper class white people are rarely challenged and never with the same intensity. People don't have a problem with non-merit-based admissions policies. They don't have a problem with policies that benefit certain races over others. They have a problem with black people.

Legacy admissions are NOT based on race and are NOT mandated by the govt. That's the huge difference.

And BTW - blacks are free to buy their way into college too. They choose not to. Instead they demand the govt give them a place in college they have neither earned nor paid for.

Fun fact: White women are the main beneficiaries of AA.

Originally Posted by Mr. Invisible

Secondly, please stop talking as the main beneficiaries of AA are white women. (Sally Kohn: Affirmative Action Helps White Women More Than Others | TIME.com)
(Who are the Intended Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action? [NC State University Affirmative Action in Employment Training])