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Feb. 18, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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When Racial Discrimination Is Legal
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
A federal judge has just ruled that Harvard University can keep on discriminating against whites and Asians so it can admit more blacks and Hispanics.
Everyone understands what's going on.
Many black and Hispanic applicants get in only because they're black or Hispanic.
A white or Asian with the same qualifications?
No thanks.
We all know that in America today, racial discrimination is the sin than which there is none greater.
So why did Judge Allison Burroughs, a white Obama appointee, say it's okay for Harvard to do something it would be illegal for you to do?
Judge Burroughs' 130-page ruling starts off with findings of fact, and the very first fact is this.
It is somewhat axiomatic at this point that diversity of all sorts, including racial diversity, is an important aspect of education.
Important! Judge Burroughs writes that campus diversity is a compelling state interest.
So compelling that getting the right mix requires racial discrimination.
As she notes, racial categorizations are necessary to achieve these goals.
In the absence of such categorizations, racial diversity at Harvard would likely decline so precipitously that Harvard would be unable to offer students the diverse environment that it reasonably finds necessary to its mission.
In other words, students can't grow up to be future leaders unless there are enough blacks and Hispanics on campus.
According to an estimate filed with the court in this case, if Harvard ignored race, The percentage of Hispanics would drop from 15% to just 3%.
Blacks would just about vanish from 16% to 1%.
That's how much they need race preferences to get into Harvard.
Tough luck for whites and Asians.
As Judge Burroughs noted, Harvard decides which applicants have to be rejected or lopped off, in her words, so it can let in more Blacks and Hispanics.
Amazingly, Harvard claims it doesn't discriminate because race is only intentionally considered as a positive attribute.
Judge Burroughs adds that race is never viewed as a negative attribute.
So, what's the problem?
Harvard is saying, don't worry.
We're not penalizing whites and Asians.
All we're doing is rewarding blacks and Hispanics.
I guess I'm just too stupid to understand the difference.
How did Judge Burroughs decide that diversity was so important?
Harvard told her it was.
And how did Harvard find out?
It established what it called the Committee to Study the Importance of Student Body Diversity.
Mind you, this was in 2015, after the lawsuit was filed.
So a moron could tell you what it was going to find.
And who led the committee?
A sociology professor named Rakesh Kurana, who was born in India.
What were the chances this guy was going to report that racial diversity is a source of tension?
It was like asking a cardinal to survey the people who live at the Vatican on the importance of belief in God.
But Judge Burroughs solemnly reports that the Qur'ana committee found that the benefits of diversity are real and profound.
What a farce!
But let's take a look at this majestic diversity.
That is crucial to Harvard's mission.
A survey by the school newspaper of the class of 2020 found that 69% had a strongly unfavorable view of Donald Trump, 16% were somewhat unfavorable, only 5% were somewhat favorable, and just 2% were strongly favorable.
Half the electorate voted for Mr. Trump, and he might be re-elected next year, but 69% of the class can't stand him, and 16% just don't like him, for a total of 85%.
Not very diverse.
What about the teachers who are training America's future leaders?
Here's a survey of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Letters.
On the left, you see how they voted in 2016.
That red sliver, that's who voted for Donald Trump.
2%. On the right are what Harvard faculty think of the president's performance.
88% say he's done a very poor job.
And 8% say he's done a poor job.
That's a 96% disapproval rating.
Not much diversity there either.
And the bar below tells you how the faculty describes itself.
38% very liberal.
45% liberal.
15% moderate.
And not even...
2% conservative or very conservative.
This is supposed to be diversity.
What Harvard wants and gets is just the right mix of people of different races who all think the same.
How many future farmers of America get into Harvard?
Or Bible-believing Christians?
Or junior members of the NRA?
Or country music guitar players?
Or heaven help us, people who think France has the right to stay French?
That would be diversity.
Instead, Harvard gets clones of Ta-Nehisi Coates and a whole crowd of chip-on-their-shoulders Latinx.
It gets groupthink.
And, of course, Harvard sets the tone for the whole country.
A 2018 study from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education found that more than half of American students think colleges and universities should be able to restrict student expression of political views that are hurtful or offensive to certain students.
Does that mean expel them?
And 70% think students who say the wrong things should be banned from extracurricular activities.
That's real tolerance and diversity for you.
Judge Burroughs ended her opinion by quoting the great legal scholar, Toni Morrison.
Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone.
It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
What? I thought race was essential to diversity.
Then, Judge Burroughs explains that the idea of race being meaningless is the goal.
We're not there yet.
But to get there, we need race preferences.
Well, where have we heard that before?
When she cast the deciding vote in favor of college race preferences in the Supreme Court case of Grutter v.
Bollinger, Sandra Day O'Connor wrote, We expect that 25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.
Well, when was that case decided?
Sixteen years ago.
The clock's ticking, Sandra.
Only nine years left.
And in the meantime, we get the same old mush.
Racial discrimination is fine, necessary, so long as it's in favor of Blacks and Hispanics.
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