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Discriminations

who? Discriminations is the joint production of John and Jessie Rosenberg. John is one of the world's older grad students, now completing a 30-year overdue dissertation at Stanford on discrimination. Jessie is a 16 year old junior at Bryn Mawr College majoring in physics.
\r\nwhat? John's focus, not surprisingly, will be on the theory and practice of discrimination, and how it is reported and analyzed.
\r\nJessie's will be discriminating thoughts on ... whatever catches her fancy or attracts her attention. (Email: jrosenbe@brynmawr.edu)

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 09:31:52

Prescription For Quotas

Posted on April 11, 2008
If I weren?t a product of both undergraduate and graduate programs at Stanford, I would be critical of this report (?Latinos underrepresented in medical profession?) of quota-mongering at the Stanford Medical School (HatTip to reader Ed Chin). But since I am, I am both ashamed and embarrassed as well as critical...

Too Many Asians Hmong Us, Or Not Enough?

Posted on April 10, 2008
I hesitate to get you even more upset than you already are about the blatant ?underrepresentation? of so many groups in so many areas of American life, but you can?t fret about this blight on our democracy as effectively as you should unless you know what I?m about to report to you (based on this report of this report) ? that ?fewer than 0...

Even In The Guardian ... !

Posted on April 10, 2008
Michael Lind has an excellent piece in the Guardian opposing race-based affirmative action. (Yes, you read that right, the Guardian.) Read it. Lind has always been a young man in a hurry ? at times, apparently in a hurry to try on the outfits of as many different political persuasions as possible...

?I Like Obama. So I Am A Good, Racism-Free Person?

Posted on April 10, 2008
According to Andrew Kohut, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that people who supported Obama did so in part because he made them feel good about themselves. [HatTip to Jim Geraghty] His article was titled ?That?s What I Like About Me,? and the findings he reports remind me of those bumper stickers proclaiming that ?My Child Is An Honor Student At [Whatever] Middle School...

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UPDATE

Posted on April 10, 2008
Too Many Asians Hmong Us... has been UPDATED.

?Diversity? For Thee, But Not For Me

Posted on April 10, 2008
A freshman at the University of North Texas, responding to an earlier article in the school paper, makes a good point regarding the idea that a diverse faculty is good for exposing students to different ways of thinking. While I agree, a later statement in favor of diversity goes completely against it...

Monkey Business In The Obama Campaign

Posted on April 09, 2008
Linda Ramirez Sliwinski is a Trustee of the Village of Carpentersville, Illinois. She has received a $75 citation for ?disorderly conduct,? and probably won?t stand for reelection. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, Ramirez Sliwinski said she saw two boys climbing a tree next door to her home about 1 p...

Interesting New Challenge To Preferential Admissions

Posted on April 09, 2008
In Hopwood v. Texas 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996) the University of Texas and other schools in the Fifth Circuit were barred from using race in admissions. In response, Texas adopted the ?Top 10%? plan guaranteeing admission to high school graduates in the top 10% of their class...

Race Consciousness? Race Baiting?

Posted on April 09, 2008
Howell Raines, the former New York Times editor who resigned in disgrace after the Jason Jayson Blair affair, has no doubt continued to think about the role of race in American society. Based on this evidence, however, he doesn?t seem to have made much progress...

?We Need More White People!? For Michelle Obama

Posted on April 09, 2008
Organizers for a Michelle Obama appearance at Carnegie Mellon University were careful to engineer their preferred version of ?diversity? in the visible audience, a ?diversity? that apparently had no room for an Asian student. (HatTip to Drudge) While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs...

?Demography? Does In Computer Science Advanced Placement

Posted on April 09, 2008
As part of temporary access to Education Week that I?ve been enjoying recently, I receive a weekly email notice of articles, etc., of interest. The most recent notice invited me to Check out the brand new issue of Technology Counts 2008: STEM: The Push to Improve Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics...

Fears No Evil

Posted on April 08, 2008
The Washington Post?s coverage of civil rights issues has been marred by the pronounced bias of its reporter covering that beat, Darryl Fears, more times that I have been able to write about, and I have written about his coverage more times than I have time to cite here...

Bad News (Oklahoma) And Good News (Michigan)

Posted on April 08, 2008
The bad news is that the Oklahoma Civil Rights Initiative has filed a request with the state supreme court to withdraw the initiative because it believes that it did not gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. Maybe next time. The good news ? no, make that great news ? is this article by Terry Pell of the Center For Individual Rights that just appeared on the web site of the National Association of Scholars...

The DeKlein Of Time

Posted on April 07, 2008
Time Magazine used to be pretty good. Now it features articles by Joe Klein filled with partisan bombast (Bush ?clearly unfit to lead?) or humorous, clueless contradictions. In the latter category, last week Klein proclaimed that liberals are more patriotic than conservatives...

An Editorial In Favor Of Civil Rights!

Posted on April 06, 2008
Editorials like this one in the Colorado Springs Gazette in favor of non-discriminatory civil rights are rare, and hence to be savored. Discussing the claims of some signers of the Colorado Civil Rights Coalition that they were deceived, the editorial states, in part: It?s difficult to understand how they could feel deceived...

Utah Conservatives Not To Blame For All Inequality...

Posted on April 06, 2008
Rebecca Walsh, a columnist at the Salt Lake Tribune, is liberal-minded. She acknowledges that the inequality that permeates the University of Utah Medical School is not ?all? the fault of one ?Republican state senator,? other ?Conservative lawmakers,? and their ?fit of regressive policy-making...

Wolff At The Door: Do Race Preferences In Admissions Require Race Preferences In Graduation?

Posted on April 04, 2008
According to the ?mismatch? phenomenon analyzed by UCLA law professor Richard Sander (and discussed here too many times to cite), applicants to law schools who are preferentially admitted with much lower grades and test scores than others in their entering classes tend to cluster near the bottom of their classes, graduate at a much lower rate, and pass the bar at a much lower rate...

The Color Of Disrespect

Posted on April 03, 2008
Philosophy professor Laurence Thomas has caused a ruckus at Syracuse University. If [he] catches a student sending text messages or reading a newspaper in class, he?ll end the class on the spot and walk out. It doesn?t matter if there is but one texter in a large lecture of hundreds of students...

UPDATE! Attempted Deception By The ACLU

Posted on April 03, 2008
My post below questioning charges of deception against proponents of the state initiatives that would prohibit states from practicing racial preferences has been UPDATED with an example of a real attempt to deceive ? by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Liberal Manifesto II

Posted on April 03, 2008
In 1956, in their famous Southern Manifesto (discussed and brought up to date here), 19 Senators and 77 Representatives from the Southern states declared, among other things in opposition to colorblind equality and defense of local control of their schools, that: Without regard to the consent of the governed, outside agitators are threatening immediate and revolutionary changes in our public school systems...

Hard To Be A Despised Minority On Campus...

Posted on April 02, 2008
I?m speaking, of course, of college Republicans, on whom on most campuses there is an open season and no limit. A case in point involves the College Republicans at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. They decided to invite a speaker to campus to talk about affirmative action, someone you will have seen and possibly even read ? the well-known (The Cosby Show, and many others) actor and commentator, Joseph C...

Hampshire Students Demand ?Diversity,? Segregation...

Posted on April 01, 2008
According to this report in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Hampshire College students walked out of class today to protest the administration?s ?insufficient commitment to fighting racism.? Among other things, the students were calling for additional faculty and staff positions in multicultural affairs, mandatory ?anti-oppression training? for all employees, and residence halls exclusively for students of color and for ?queer-identified? students...

Last Wrights?

Posted on April 01, 2008
Should the disputes over Rev. Wright?s rants, and Obama?s enabling them, be allowed ?to die,? as Kevin Drum and other liberals would like? Victor Davis Hanson thinks not.

Deception?

Posted on April 01, 2008
The New York Times has a surprisingly fair and balanced article this morning on ?charges of deception? leveled at the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative. Prominently displayed is picture of a black woman, Freddie Whitney with a caption stating that she ?signed what she was told was an antidiscrimination petition in this Denver parking lot...

The Dawn Of ?Post-Affirmative Action America?!

Posted on March 31, 2008
On a number of occasions I have criticized Theodore Shaw, the Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Education Fund (see here, here, here, here, here, and here for examples), but for once I hope he?s right about something. Next Thursday he will be giving the keynote address at a symposium at the Indiana University Law School entitled ?The Place of Race in Post-Affirmative Action America...

A Left-Wing Slant On The Downside Of Diversity

Posted on March 31, 2008
I have written a number of times about Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam?s recent conclusions that diversity turns Americans into ?turtles? and generally makes them isolated and distrustful. Now comes Eduardo Porter, writing an ?Editorial Observer? piece in the New York Times, ? Race and the Social Contract,? that without citing Putnam makes some very similar points...

Academic Unions, Red Herrings, And The ?Affirmative Action Syndrome?

Posted on March 31, 2008
According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education today, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers are elevating the issue of faculty ?diversity? to one of their primary ?bread and butter? issues. I was struck by the discussion of one professor?s research...

What He Said

Posted on March 30, 2008
I don?t agree with everything Pat Buchanan says, by a long shot. But I do agree with everything he says here.

UPDATE!

Posted on March 30, 2008
?An Equal Playing Field?? has been UPDATED. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to determine whether the UPDATE is serious or a joke.

Double-Reverse Discrimination?

Posted on March 30, 2008
Regular readers will know that I don?t believe there is any such thing as ?reverse discrimination.? A policy or practice is either discriminatory, or it isn?t. My beliefs aside, I wonder what people who do believe that ?reverse discrimination? is distinguishable in a meaningful way from ordinary, garden variety discrimination would make of the following recent development in Louisville...

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