I gather it would be “white nationalist” of me to point out that the only students discriminated against in college admissions are white.
Unfortunately, that also means Georgetown University and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are white nationalist leaders. The university recently conducted a study funded by the Gates Foundation finding that, if colleges admitted students based solely on SAT scores, every single ethnic group would decline — except whites.
Yes, even fewer Asian students would be admitted on an SAT-only admission standard. (I assume this is because whites have lower GPAs than Asians. Compared to them, white people are lazy. Of course, compared to Asians, everybody’s lazy.)
It’s a social faux pas worse than calling a black person “articulate” to mention discrimination against white Americans. We’re only allowed to bemoan discrimination against Asians. (Asians are SO lucky they’re not white! Otherwise, America’s leading hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, would be constantly churning out reports on the disturbing rise in “Asian Supremacy.”)
I’m almost positive that proving anti-white discrimination was not the purpose of a study funded by Bill and Melinda Gates. But when the study failed to produce some small pocket of racism against a favored group that had heretofore gone unnoticed — and instead found discrimination against whites — the study was locked in a lead casket and dropped to the bottom of the sea.
How can that be, when all our cultural institutions treat “white privilege” as implacable fact? The most hilarious example of the “white privilege” insanity comes from “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh,” the instantly discredited book by Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly. The authors act as if a half-Puerto Rican girl entering Yale in the 1980s is the Rosa Parks of college admissions.
They write: “Yale in the 1980s was in the early stages of integrating more minority students into its historically privileged white male population. The college had admitted its first black student in the 1850s, but by [Debbie] Ramirez’s time there, people of color comprised less than a fifth of the student body.”
That’s quite a jump from the 1850s to the 1980s. You say “people of color” (anyone but whites) comprise less than a FIFTH of the student body? How many POCs do Pogrebin and Kelly think should have been at Yale? According to the U.S. Census, the country barely reached 20 percent minority by the end of the 1980s. In a miraculous coincidence, the ethnic composition of the Yale student body matched that percentage exactly. (It’s almost as if the university was basing admissions on rigid ethnic quotas.)
Pogrebin and Kelly claim that “college campuses of the 1980s had yet to be galvanized by the identity and sexual politics that course through today’s cultural debates.”
Were these two in a Siberian gulag in the 1980s? That decade marked the height of attacks on (white) Western Civilization.
In 1987, the year Ramirez and Kavanaugh graduated from Yale, Jesse Jackson led hundreds of protesters in a march on Stanford University chanting “Hey hey ho ho! Western Civ has got to go!” The following year, the Times reported on a decades-long assault on the accepted canon of great literature as merely the choices of “elitist” “white men.”
Throughout the period that the authors imagine Yale was wall-to-wall white men, the media produced an endless stream of “Racism Update” pieces. National Review’s Joe Sobran famously parodied The New York Times with the imaginary headline: Earthquake Destroys New York; Women and Minorities Hit Hardest.
In actuality, assuming Ramirez applied to Yale Law School after college, she had a five times better chance of being admitted than a white applicant like Kavanaugh — simply because she had one Puerto Rican parent.
Has the phrase “Hispanic privilege” ever appeared in any media outlet?
That statistic is based on a massive study of law school admissions in the 1990s conducted by Linda F. Wightman — again, intended to prove the opposite of what it actually did prove. Her study fell into the hands of Stephan Thernstrom, who analyzed the data, and his results were published in the New York University Law Review in 1998.
With the same grades and scores, Puerto Ricans were 5.3 times more likely to be admitted to a top-tier law school like Yale than a white applicant. Indeed, every ethnic group except whites got a boost — African Americans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, “Other Hispanic” — even Asians. The more prestigious the law school, the stronger the racial preferences.
What ever happened to the idea that affirmative action was needed to remedy historic wrongs? That means the descendants of American slaves, not every bellyaching non-white person. How did the whole rainbow coalition wedge itself into the affirmative action gravy train? Abstracted from the legacy of slavery, affirmative action is just institutionalized bigotry against whites.
By now, race discrimination against traditional white Americans is so ubiquitous that the truth, based on cold hard facts, simply don’t compute. I guess it’s white nationalist to know the truth.
COPYRIGHT 2019 ANN COULTER
