After years of debate, we suddenly have conclusive proof that affirmative action policies for school enrollment have perpetuated discrimination against Asian American students. But “diversity, equity, and inclusion” ( DEI ) die-hards ca n’t accept it.
After years of stagnant admission rates for Asian Americans, MIT released its racial demographic data for the Class of 2028, which showed an increase in the percentage of Asian students who were admitted by the elite from 40 % to 47 %. In the days that followed, this proved to be a style across several university campuses, as more admissions information trickled in from other corporations, such as at Columbia University, where Asian Americans went up by nine items, and Brown University, where they went up by four points. In some cases, like at Yale and Princeton, the findings were mixed, seemingly vindicating opponents of affirmative action.
The issue is more complex than it appears, though many of these colleges claim that some students refused to reveal their competition. Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA, indicates that many of these are good Asian American kids who “know they’re the target”. Additionally, it is still possible that some schools are gently repressing the Supreme Court’s ruling. The majority of the results, although, vindicate what some Eastern Americans have known for decades.
The Supreme Court overturned the landmark case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ( 2023 ), which overturned race-based affirmative action policies across the country, last year, changing the college-admissions landscape. The case involved Asian American students who faced discrimination from the admissions sheets of prestigious colleges, and the lawsuit itself revealed that college admissions officers frequently gave Asian candidates lower character scores as part of a presumably “holistic” process. Communist activists continued to assert that Asian Americans who opposed affirmative action policies were merely “pawns” for white supremacist interests.
Asians Are n’t Pawns
The activists ‘ definition of “pawns” is that they assert that any Asian American who opposes affirmative action is a position that is in line with white supremacist ideology. As a result, any Asian American who supports such a position is ultimately a “useful idiot” for an agenda that does n’t benefit Asians. However, anti-Asian prejudice was actually the standard prior to the Supreme Court decision, which disseminated the notion that Asians were merely pawns for white supremacist interests, as new admissions data reveal.
Eastern American Conservatives Have Become Key Allies of White Supremacy, a piece of writing published in The Nation following the Supreme Court’s ruling goes one step further, dispensing entirely with the “pawn” narrative and making the claim that” Asian American anti-affirmative action protesters have not been merely “used” by white protesters and duped into this white supremacist plan. They are effective, violent co-conspirators with bright conservatives”.
The article goes on to say that “reversing affirmative action just strengthens the inhabitants of white kids, at the cost of Black and various minority pupils, including Asian Americans.” By pretending that Asian Americans are the “right” minority group for such a boost, this sleight-of-hand tries to make it appear as though affirmative action actually benefits Asian Americans by making it seem like it helps Asian Americans as a whole ( as Asians are a racial minority group ).
Righting the Narrative on Race and Education
But why, then, did the tale of white power get such a lot of attention in the first place? There are two factors. First of all, the fact that Asiatic Americans have been able to outperform white Americans and all other cultural groups professionally demonstrates that there is no white nationalist bias in standardized testing. Communist protesters in the legal field ( and there are many of these people in law school ) claim that these standardized testing have been used to reduce the population of minority students, and many schools have been doing so.
Eastern Americans are majority students, so it is important to note. In fact, Asians account for much less of the population in America than dark and Latinos. Due to this, many higher education institutions and organizations have switched to using the word “underrepresented minority,” which is defined as any minority group that is excluding Asians.
It’s difficult to imagine a group of white supremacists carefully designing the SAT so that Asian Americans, who were a small population at the time most standardized testing were created, had on average perform better than white people, so that this supposed white supremacist gang may have a case for prejudice in the future.
Another reason why so many in our college-educated group accuse Asian Americans of colluding with white supremacists is because so many campaigners and operational functionaries ‘ lives depend on the validity of such a claim. Higher education institutions and workplaces are increasingly being staffed by a number of administrators in DEI-related departments. Just like a janitor needs trash to exist to justify their job’s existence, DEI officers need evidence of white supremacy ( or patriarchy, or some other form of alleged discrimination ) to justify their continued employment.
In addition, social justice ideology is hegemonic in practically all of the country’s humanities departments, which is where the sunk-cost fallacy comes in: People need to believe what they’ve been told to believe, or else they will realize they wasted time living in a falsehood. So they need to keep whacking it like a piata if white supremacy is the bogeyman, or at least they should be, to defuse accusations of cultural appropriation.
In fact, some people still need to believe otherwise in order to maintain their sanity and sense of mental stability despite the fact that there is now definitive evidence that affirmative action policies have discriminated against Asian Americans for decades. However, such lies cannot be used to impose laws that have an impact on the lives of millions of Americans.
Sheluyang Peng is a graduate student studying religion and a contributor to Young Voices. Follow him on X @AxiomAmerican.
