Thread by @wesyang

When the woke rail against “whiteness”, they are railing against the rule of the most WASPified 2nd through fourth Gen Italians, Irish, Jews, Greeks, Slavs, and Poles

*the ones who scored highest on the SAT

The test was the instrument for picking from the various European ethnicities for incorporation into an Ivy League superclass — but concurrently to the project of black-white integration

So what was an on-ramp for non-WASP Europeans was a barrier for blacks, as a population recently segregated was suddenly exposed to competition from 2nd Gen immigrant populations. Thus the need for affirmative action.

Those European immigrant populations were already out scoring the WASP population on standardized tests and other measures of academic achievement and came to outnumber them in the superclass. The recent formation is the “meritocracy.”