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The fodder for this thread are two articles in the past several weeks' New York Times:
Restrictions or attempts to tilt the ethnic makeup of schools and the workplace have an ugly history. Back in the 1920's universities imposed quotas limiting the number of Jewish students they accepted, fearing that they'd be overrun with them. Jews' valuing education led and continues to lead to spending money on tutors, and parents enforcing iron discipline on the completion of school work; qualities that now mark many Asian families. The practice was also prevalent in the workplace, as highlighted by Alan Dershowitz in his book Chutzpah. Despite top grades at Harvard Law School he had trouble getting a job after law school. When the world learned of the Holocaust this became less acceptable.
A new label for the policy was needed. For a while it was called "affirmative action." Now it's called "diversity." The push for "diversity" has run into the shoals of the demands of people who succeed in the higher education settings and the workplace, namely Asians and Jews.
With regard to Asian-Americans:
No one's stopping them.
- Education Dept. Reopens Rutgers Case Charging Discrimination Against Jewish Students;
- U.S. Argues Harvard Admissions Policies Harm Asian-Americans.
Restrictions or attempts to tilt the ethnic makeup of schools and the workplace have an ugly history. Back in the 1920's universities imposed quotas limiting the number of Jewish students they accepted, fearing that they'd be overrun with them. Jews' valuing education led and continues to lead to spending money on tutors, and parents enforcing iron discipline on the completion of school work; qualities that now mark many Asian families. The practice was also prevalent in the workplace, as highlighted by Alan Dershowitz in his book Chutzpah. Despite top grades at Harvard Law School he had trouble getting a job after law school. When the world learned of the Holocaust this became less acceptable.
A new label for the policy was needed. For a while it was called "affirmative action." Now it's called "diversity." The push for "diversity" has run into the shoals of the demands of people who succeed in the higher education settings and the workplace, namely Asians and Jews.
With regard to Asian-Americans:
With regard to Jewish people, Kenneth L. Marcus, the assistant secretary of education for civil rights is readying to reopen a lawsuit dropped by the Obama Justice Department about anti-Jewish discrimination.New York Times discussing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said:
Pro-diversity policies have become a cover for favoring certain vote-rich minority groups. Diversity should be inclusive of all groups, not just groups that have less than their share of success. Perhaps those groups should do what the Asian-Americans and Jews do; try at work and school.New York Times discussing Kenneth L. Marcus said:
No one's stopping them.
