Thread by @SteveMillerOC

Race-based college admissions discriminate against Asian American children and have either no effect or actually benefit white students.

That is why rich white guys like this can support it to signal their virtue, while pushing down others not like themselves based on race.

Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford favor race-based admissions. But their study showed that at competitive public universities, the racial bias AGAINST Asian applicants relative to whites was as strong as the bias in favor of black students.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Espenshade found an Asian American had to score MUCH higher than a white student on the ACT to have equal chance of admission.

But, as an advocate of race-based admissions, he denied this proved a racial bias against Asians because Asians might be inferior on “soft variables”.

Separately, Espenshade and Chung studied 124,374 applicants under current “race conscious” admissions compared to a “race neutral system” and found white enrollment would be unchanged but Asian American enrollment would be MUCH higher in a race-neutral system.

The data made public in litigation revealed that Harvard’s admissions system had no net negative affect on white applicants relative to a strictly GPA and SAT system, and that it was specifically Asian American applicants that Harvard systematically gave low “personality” scores.

At Yale, we just discovered from data revealed by the Department of Justice that

the top 10% of Yale applicants by GPA and SAT were:

62% Asian
33% White

while the 7.1% of Yale applicants actually admitted were

27% Asian
38% White

When interviewers point out that race-based admissions to increase “under-represented” racial categories at the University of California would mean “more white students, but the number of Asian American students would be reduced by over 50%”, #YesOn16 lawmakers just shrug.

When the California state legislature passed the constitutional amendment now on the ballot as Prop 16, over and over lawmakers in favor of legalizing racial discrimination said this was appropriate because “race matters!”

They said “we all know in our hearts that race matters”

But they know if #Prop16 passes that it will not be THEIR kids who will be racially discriminated against when they apply to college.

It will be the only racial group that the UC calls “over-represented” — Asian Americans.

Their piety hides their racism.

Or as I put it more succinctly a month ago ...

Yes, race-based policies would likely discriminate against Californians classified as white when applying for state jobs or competing for state contracts.

But most rich white guys aren’t looking for a state government job or contract, while their kids are applying to college.

A postscript, since the above 2020 thread is getting renewed attention:

Equality won a landslide victory over racial discrimination in California on Nov 3, 2020. #Prop16 was defeated.

We now hope for a decision from the Supreme Court upholding equality under law nation wide.