A Devastating Affirmative-Action Failure: Predictable Results from a Berkeley Case Study

Thank You.."After 4 years of college, I have used the education I received in a myriad of ways. Most notably, winning many games of Trivial Pursuit,"...That's funny....I remember asking an instructor at the time why we were studying a subject and was told the purpose was to teach us how to think. I went away scratching my head because ....it wasn't working.

On another forum there are a few professional college students who insist they are smarter then everyone else.
Their battle cry is “I hate racists” and “you are a moron”

I feel sorry for them, all filled with knowledge and dumb as a box of rocks with no wisdom.

“I later entered a male dominated profession. In a school of 600 professional students there were 12 ( Yes, TWELVE) women students!”

Early in my career (1970’s & 1980’s) I worked for a manufacturing division of a large multinational corporation. I developed a healthy respect for the first women to enter factory supervisory positions in that era. My wife happened to be one and she was one tough lady who didn’t take crap off anyone. Those women were run through the ringer and persevered despite the abuse and obstacles put in their way. The minorities didn’t have as hard a time because the HR folks were watching out for them every step of the way and the plant managers were under notice that if one of them failed his career would be over.

Excellent as usual from MacDonald, but the most powerful critique of affirmative action is not the Mismatch theory, but rather the undeniable fact that white (and Asian in places like California) students are discriminated against. The pernicious idea that Diversity justifies the use of racial preferences is much worse than the entirely predictable situation where beneficiaries of racial preferences find themselves in over their heads once in college.

The only way racial preferences will ever end is if white voters demand it. Only the realization that their interests and the interests of their children are harmed by racial preferences, and then insistence that the worthless GOP actually do something about it, will bring an end to racial preferences. As compelling as the Mismatch theory is, it doesn’t mean that black and Hispanic Americans will refrain from demanding preferences, let alone accept them when given.

So I don’t really know who this will convince. Maybe it will persuade some white liberals to oppose preferences. Since they don’t care at all about, and in fact actively support discrimination against other whites, then maybe this is the only way to convince them.

There is an old saying: “If you can’t get into Cal Tech, go to MIT.”

MIT has a much higher enrollment. Therefore, it is easier to get into. I always thought that Cal Tech was a state of California school.

Do you watch “Big Bang Theory” ?

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