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<p>Great website. I wonder what marvelous correlations could be drawn from this website.</p>
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<p>I take it you dismiss Jian Li as both angsty and pretentious because he wishes to be treated without regard to his race and ethnicity. That does not surprise me.</p>
<p>I find it interesting that you disparage the E&C study as “biased” but don’t make the same comment to B&B’s apologetic defenses of racial preferences.</p>
<p>Jian Li is fighting for the correct implementation of affirmative action laws, namely, if we are not supposed to discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, and so forth, then none of those should be visible to the admissions officers.</p>
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<p>No, you’re thinking of the disgraced MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. I thank collegealum314 for pointing out that the phrase “textureless math grind” originates from Ms. Jones when she tried to explain how a high-scoring Korean applicant was rejected. By the way, that label doesn’t even make sense in this context since Li scored a 2400 on the SAT, which means that he scored 800s on both the critical reading and writing sections. Not too bad for a “textureless math grind,” eh?</p>
<p>I would consider it progress if a student were insulted as “yet another boring applicant who plays violin and wants to be a doctor” instead of “yet another boring Asian who plays violin and wants to be a doctor.” I’m sure you’ll agree with me.</p>
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<p>The worst, and I mean worst, way to respond to an allegation of racism is “I have [insert group here] friends.”</p>
<p>It proves nothing.</p>
<p>For example, I live in South. By Derrick’s standards, it’s a pretty diverse community. Heck, by the standards of any racial preference defender, it’s pretty diverse. You’d be hard pressed to find a white student who isn’t friends with at least one black student.</p>
<p>Does that mean that these white students are all non-racists? Hardly. As an Asian, my white friends don’t mind telling black racist jokes in my presence. I’ve heard them since I was in sixth grade.</p>
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<p>Israel and affirmative action parallel each other as right / left issues.</p>
<p>It’s almost impossible for one to be anti-Israel without drowning in an ocean of anti-Semitic charges from the American Right. These two are separate. Israel is a nation that consists of Jews and non-Jews. Judaism is a religion. One can be anti-Israel but not anti-Semitic.</p>
<p>It’s almost impossible for an affirmative action discussion to proceed without a person claiming “racism.” There is no reason why one cannot be against affirmative action and racism. Affirmative action as implemented in our nation, and indeed around the world, has never progressed the cause of anti-racism. It invariably becomes a method of racial preference and entitlement.</p>
<p>Anti-affirmative action is definitely not racist, considering that affirmative action is our nation’s most racist policy right now.</p>
<p>I didn’t say affirmative action or anti-affirmative action was racist. I just said that when people argue over it, they tend to generalize way too much and come off as racist because they go overboard.</p>