{"id":2345180,"date":"2024-09-24T08:48:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-data-vindicates-asians-admissions-discrimination-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:53:31","slug":"college-data-vindicates-asians-admissions-discrimination-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-data-vindicates-asians-admissions-discrimination-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"College Data Vindicates Asians&#8217; Admissions Discrimination Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-data-vindicates-asians-admissions-discrimination-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2345180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200c article\u200c discusses the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asian-american-activists-blast-bidens-pandering-anti-racism-order\/\" title=\"Asian-American Activists Blast Biden\u2019s \u2018Pandering\u2019 Anti-Racism Order\">affirmative action policies<\/a> on \u2064Asian American students in college admissions, revealing that recent\u2064 data suggests discrimination against\u200b this group. Following a Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that dismantled race-based \u2063affirmative action, MIT\u200b released data showing a significant\u200d increase in admitted\u2064 Asian American students\u2014from 40% \u200bto 47%\u2014indicating a broader trend among elite universities. While some institutions showed mixed results, many schools reported an increase \u2063in Asian admissions,\u2062 even \u200das some students chose not to \u2063disclose their race, possibly due\u200c to concerns about discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c discourse \u2064surrounding affirmative action often labels \u200cAsian Americans who\u2062 oppose these \u2064policies as \u2062\u201cpawns\u201d of white supremacist agendas, but\u200b the \u200cevidence points to a different reality\u2014Asian\u2063 Americans have faced\u200c academic \u2063discrimination under such policies.\u200d The article argues that such labeling ignores\u200d the active role Asian Americans play in \u2064advocating for their \u200drights and misrepresents the detrimental impact \u200cof\u2064 affirmative action on \u200cthis demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it\u200b challenges the narrative that Asian Americans are not \u2062properly included in discussions about\u200c minority status,\u2063 as they have\u200d been historically\u200d portrayed as a\u2063 model minority. the piece advocates for a\u2062 clearer understanding of race and educational\u2064 equity \u2063in America, stressing that affirmative action has\u200b disproportionately harmed Asian American \u200cstudents while questioning the motivations\u200c behind the ongoing debates about race in college admissions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After years of debate, we finally have definitive evidence to prove that affirmative action policies for college admissions have perpetuated discrimination against Asian American students. But &ldquo;diversity, equity, and inclusion&rdquo; (DEI) die-hards can&rsquo;t accept it.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, MIT became the first elite college to release its racial demographic data for the Class of 2028, showing that after years of static admission rates for Asian Americans, the percentage of admitted Asian students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/08\/mit-begins-to-discriminate-less\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jumped up seven points<\/a> &mdash; from 40 percent to <a href=\"https:\/\/mitadmissions.org\/apply\/process\/profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">47 percent<\/a>. In the days that followed, this proved to be a pattern across many college campuses, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/affirmative-action-enrollment-asian-americans-rcna170716\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more admissions data<\/a> trickled in from other institutions, such as at Columbia University, where Asian Americans went up by nine points, and Brown University, where they went up by four points. In some cases, like at Yale and Princeton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/13\/us\/affirmative-action-ban-campus-diversity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the results were mixed<\/a>, apparently vindicating proponents of affirmative action.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the issue is more nuanced than it appears, as many of these colleges report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/education\/harvards-latest-class-fewer-students-who-identify-as-black-more-who-didnt-disclose-their-race-b79c28a6?msockid=0dec11e9d7a560453bc3050ad662617c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some percentage<\/a> of students refused to disclose their race. Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA, indicates that many of these are likely Asian American students who &ldquo;know they&rsquo;re the target.&rdquo; And it is still possible that <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/education\/college-admissions-data-affirmative-action%23:~:text=Some%2520experts%2520were%2520critical%2520of%2520the%2520%2522discrepancy%2520between%2520what%2520was%2520predicted%2520and%2520the%2520actual%2520outcome%2520of%2520the%2520court's%2520ruling,%2522%2520suggesting%2520some%2520%2522might%2520have%2520not%2520complied%2520with%2520the%2520decision,%2522%2520said%2520the%2520Times.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some colleges<\/a> are subtly refusing to enforce the Supreme Court decision. The majority of the results, though, vindicate what many Asian Americans have known for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The whole college-admissions landscape changed last year when the Supreme Court ruled on the landmark case <em>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard<\/em> (2023), overturning race-based affirmative action policies nationwide. The case hinged on Asian American students who were discriminated against by the admissions boards of elite universities, and the suit itself revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-cherry-picks-tragic-abuse-story-to-smear-the-homeschooling-surge\/\" title=\"Washington Post distorts abuse story to attack homeschooling surge\">college admissions officers<\/a> were routinely giving Asian applicants lower personality scores as part of a supposedly &ldquo;holistic&rdquo; process. Nevertheless, leftist activists pushed the narrative that Asian Americans that opposed affirmative action policies were actually &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/asian-americans-say-affirmative-action-ruling-used-pawns-rcna91861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pawns<\/a>&rdquo; for white supremacist agendas.<\/p>\n<h2>Asians Aren&rsquo;t Pawns<\/h2>\n<p>What the activists mean by &ldquo;pawns&rdquo; is that they claim that opposition to affirmative action is a stance aligned with white supremacist thought, and thus any Asian American who would take such a position is, in essence, a &ldquo;useful idiot&rdquo; for an agenda that doesn&rsquo;t benefit Asians. Yet, as the recent admissions numbers show, anti-Asian discrimination was in fact the norm prior to the Supreme Court decision, blowing away the narrative that Asians were mere pawns for white supremacist interests.<\/p>\n<p>One article published in The Nation after the Supreme Court decision, titled &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/asian-american-conservatives-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asian American Conservatives Have Become Key Allies of White Supremacy<\/a>,&rdquo; goes one step further, dispensing with the &ldquo;pawn&rdquo; narrative altogether to argue that &ldquo;Asian American anti&ndash;affirmative action activists have not been simply &lsquo;used&rsquo; by white activists and duped into this white supremacist policy. They are active, militant co-conspirators with white conservatives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The article also bizarrely states that &ldquo;reversing affirmative action only strengthens the population of white students at the expense of Black and other minority students, including Asian Americans.&rdquo; This sleight-of-hand tries to make it look like affirmative action actually helps Asian Americans by positing that affirmative action increases the population of minority students as a whole (as Asians are a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shot-himself-in-the-foot-ibram-x-kendi-posts-then-deletes-tweet-that-accidentally-refutes-crt\/\" title=\"\u2018Shot Himself In The Foot\u2019: Ibram X. Kendi Posts, Then Deletes Tweet That Accidentally Refutes CRT\">racial minority group<\/a>) while ignoring that Asian Americans aren&rsquo;t the &ldquo;right&rdquo; minority group for such a boost &mdash; Asian Americans are in fact harmed by affirmative action, despite being a racial minority.<\/p>\n<h2>Righting the Narrative on Race and Education<\/h2>\n<p>So, then, why was there so much emphasis on the narrative of white supremacy in the first place? There are two reasons. First of all, the fact that Asian Americans have managed to academically outperform white Americans and all other racial groups shows that there is no white supremacist bias in standardized testing. Many colleges have dropped SAT requirements, and some law schools have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/17\/us\/law-schools-lsat-requirement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropping LSAT requirements<\/a> as well, due to leftist activists in the legal field (and there are a lot of such people in law school) claiming that such standardized tests have been used to lower the population of minority students.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Asian Americans <em>are<\/em> minority students. Indeed, Asians make up far less of the American population than black and Latino people do. Because of this, many institutions of higher education and workplaces have switched to using the term &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsf23315\/report\/glossary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">underrepresented minority<\/a>,&rdquo; which is defined specifically as every minority group besides Asians.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine a cabal of white supremacists sitting in smoke-filled rooms, strategically designing the SAT so that Asian Americans &mdash; a miniscule population at the time most standardized tests were synthesized &mdash; would, on average, perform better at the tests than white people, just so this supposed white supremacist cabal would have plausible deniability against future accusations of racism.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason why many in our college-educated class accuse Asian Americans of collusion with white supremacists is because the livelihoods and egos of so many activists and administrative apparatchiks depend on such a narrative being true. Workplaces and institutions of higher learning are increasingly staffed in ever-greater numbers by various administrators in departments dedicated to DEI. Just like a janitor needs trash to exist to justify their job&rsquo;s existence, DEI officers need evidence of white supremacy (or patriarchy, or some other form of alleged discrimination) to justify their continued employment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, social justice ideology reigns hegemonic in practically all humanities departments in the country, and the sunk-cost fallacy comes in: People need to believe what they&rsquo;ve been taught to be true, or else they would have to realize they wasted precious years of their life dedicated to a falsehood. So if white supremacy is the bogeyman &mdash; or perhaps they&rsquo;d say bogeyperson &mdash; they need to keep whacking it like a pi&ntilde;ata, although they may have to have a &ldquo;Latinx&rdquo; do it to avoid accusations of cultural appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, while there is now definitive proof that affirmative action policies have discriminated against Asian Americans for decades, some people still need to believe otherwise to maintain their cushy positions and their sense of mental stability. But such falsehoods cannot be used to dictate policies that affect the lives of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Sheluyang Peng is a graduate student in religious studies and a writer for Young Voices. Follow him on X @AxiomAmerican.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of discussion, we now have clear evidence that affirmative action policies in college admissions have led to discrimination against Asian American students. However, staunch supporters of &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; (DEI) refuse to acknowledge this fact. Recently, MIT became the first prestigious institution to publish its racial demographic data for the Class of 2028. This data revealed a significant increase in the percentage of admitted Asian students\u2014from 40% to 47%\u2014after years of stagnant admission rates. Similar trends were observed at other universities; for instance, Columbia University saw a nine-point rise in Asian American admissions and Brown University experienced a four-point increase. While some institutions like Yale and Princeton showed mixed results that seemed to support affirmative action advocates, many colleges noted that a portion of applicants chose not to disclose their race. Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA, suggests that many who withheld their racial information are likely Asian Americans aware they are being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>The landscape of college admissions shifted dramatically last year when the Supreme Court ruled on Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), which abolished race-based affirmative action policies across the country. The case highlighted how elite university admissions boards discriminated against Asian American applicants by assigning them lower personality scores within an ostensibly &#8220;holistic&#8221; review process. Despite this evidence, some leftist activists claimed that Asian Americans opposing affirmative action were merely &#8220;pawns&#8221; serving white supremacist agendas.<\/p>\n<p>These activists argue that opposition to affirmative action aligns with white supremacist ideology and label any dissenting Asian American as unwittingly aiding an agenda detrimental to their own community&#8217;s interests. However, recent admission statistics contradict this narrative by demonstrating that anti-Asian discrimination was prevalent before the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>An article from The Nation post-ruling even suggested that anti-affirmative action activists among Asian Americans are not just being manipulated but are actively collaborating with conservative whites against minority interests\u2014a claim lacking substantial evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The article further contends that ending affirmative action would only benefit white students while harming Black and other minority groups\u2014including Asians\u2014by implying it somehow aids all minorities without recognizing how it specifically disadvantages certain groups like Asians.<\/p>\n<p>So why has there been such focus on framing this issue through a lens of white supremacy? There are two main reasons: First is the academic success of many Asian Americans compared to other racial groups which challenges claims about systemic bias in standardized testing like the SATs\u2014tests some colleges have begun dropping due to accusations from leftist activists about their role in limiting minority representation.<\/p>\n<p>Second is economic; numerous DEI administrators rely on narratives about systemic racism for job security within educational institutions increasingly focused on diversity initiatives. These individuals may feel compelled to uphold these beliefs despite contrary evidence because admitting otherwise could undermine their professional credibility or reveal wasted efforts over years spent promoting flawed ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, while there is now undeniable proof showing how affirmative action has historically discriminated against Asian Americans over decades, some individuals cling stubbornly to outdated beliefs as they seek validation for their roles within academia or activism\u2014even if those beliefs do not reflect reality or serve justice for millions affected by these policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3446,"featured_media":2345181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3503723997_4836a29790_k-e1726841620907.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19323,41586,5102],"class_list":["post-2345180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-asians","tag-college-admissions","tag-discrimination"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3503723997_4836a29790_k-e1726841620907.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}