Harvard Leads the Way

For John, BLUF:  This Opinion Piece is a bit snarky, but it catches the idea that Harvard University discriminates against Asian-Americans.  The good News is that you don't have to be a Harvard Grad to be a success in life.  And being a graduate of some Harvard school is not a guarantee of being widely respected—look at Congressman Adam Schiff.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Harvard’s Asian student quota a lesson in liberal bias

From The Boston Herald, by Commentator Michael Graham, 2 October 2019.

Here is the lede plus five:

How can you tell if you’re a good Boston-Globe liberal?

If you think keeping over-achieving Asian kids out of Harvard because they’re the wrong color isn’t problematic, but a photo of Chinese food is — you get an A+!

Unlike the Asian-Americans applying to attend Harvard, who get a “‘Woke’ Gentleman’s C.”

New England’s Partisan Paper of Record is celebrating the soon-to-be-overturned ruling of a liberal District Court judge who upheld Harvard’s anti-Asian quota system in defense of the premise that racism, when practiced by progressives, is a good thing.

“Affirmative action must live on,” says Boston Globe-Democrat columnist Shirley Leung, who concedes that Harvard limits the number of Asian students specifically because they’re Asian, and she acknowledges that the court didn’t rule that Harvard doesn’t discriminate but rather that Harvard does discrimination the right way.

“A very fine admissions program” as Judge Allison Burroughs calls it.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff