Getting It Wrong

For John, BLUF:  When you are locked into using a hammer, every problem is treated like a nail.  Public Education needs to fish around in the tool bag for some alternative tools.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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ASIANS AS BENEFICIARIES OF WHITE PRIVILEGE

From Powerline Blog, by Mr John Hinderaker, 27 May 2019.

This is about New York City public Schools.

Here is the lede plus one:

The success of Asian-Americans is a severe embarrassment to the race industry.  Race hustlers focus on “gaps” between whites and blacks with regard to income and educational attainment, which they attribute to “systemic” racism.  But what about the gaps between Asian-Americans and whites?  Asians, on average, earn considerably more than whites and as a group they do better in school.  Is their superior performance due to “systemic” racism directed against whites?

Presumably not.  But then, what becomes of the assumption that “gaps” between ethnic groups must necessarily be the result of racism?  There is no answer to this question, which is why race hustlers generally ignore Asians.

Explaining institutional failure is hard, especially when it is something like public schools.  And given past US institutional racism it is tempting to pull that out as an excuse, but it is not solving the problem, and may be making it worse.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff