about 28 percent<\/a> (of a population base of 68-70 percent), despite the supposedly cherished tradition of \u2018proportional representation.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\nWill the most aggrieved at the new racialist discrimination and reduced slots be the suburban, bicoastal white liberal professional classes? They put a high premium on the quality and branding of their children\u2019s education? Did the Left, then, strangle many of its own?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
If a teenager works nonstop for four years, achieves all the requisites that universities say they require, from grades to test scores to \u201ccommunity activities,\u201d and then is rejected by these schools due to being a white or Asian male, will it work to say, \u201cYour rejection is a small sacrifice that America must pay to become truly diverse?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We should assume that when athletes and legacies (e.g., their alumni parents or grandparents gave a lot of money) are factored in, the new admissions will also eliminate entirely the white lower- and middle-classes, who without privilege lack both the correct appearance and the money, influence, and leverage to navigate around the woke gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If admissions are now adjudicated by race (and not just merit, class, or intellectual diversity), do grades and test scores either no longer matter, or have to be arbitrarily \u201cadjusted\u201d for the necessary beneficiaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does this ying prompt a yang? That is, if thousands of highly prepped students are being turned away from tony colleges for reasons other than their transcripts and scores, would not the beneficiaries be a Hillsdale College or other superb but often neglected traditionalist campuses that enshrine merit as still essential for admission, while appearance is incidental? Should we not see these alternatives even further ascend? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are there larger currents here? United Airlines will now institute pilot training by racial allotments. Are they assuming that the old meritocratic standards were unnecessary constructs, and thus those who did not meet them still had the requisite skill, in the age of computers, not to crash planes and kill passengers? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Just appearing this week in the news are stories that our elite colleges have sent out letters of admissions. White applicants at many universities have been accepted at historic lows of about 28 percent (of a population base of 68-70 percent), despite the supposedly cherished tradition of \u2018proportional representation.\u2019 Will the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3r5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13668,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/eeyores-cabinet-the-paradoxes-of-woke-racism-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":13211,"position":0},"title":"Eeyore\u2019s Cabinet: The Paradoxes of Woke Racism","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Stand out from the crowd and different concepts One light balloon glowing and floating above other white balloons on white wall background with window reflections and shadows 3D rendering Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Part Two. 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