Since the Bakke decision in 1978, universities had been allowed to implement affirmative action in order to increase and maintain campus “diversity.” But why do schools like Harvard want diversity in the first place? My guest this week, the journalist Jay Caspian Kang, argues that diversity policies serve mostly to enrich the experience of white, privileged students rather than the racial minorities it pretends to benefit.
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Yes, the wealthy kids at Harvard ARE providing a value to Black Farmer from Idaho and Asian American kid - the Golden Rolodex of their family connections, the Platinum Linked-in connections. I mean, that is why the reason for the clawing into Ivys. Right?
Time for employers to stop fawning over the Ivys, plenty of great candidates everywhere.
And now we know, kids at Harvard and UNC, also great, but not better.
Eh...I did do a lecture on Sui Sin Far once...described Mrs. Spring Fragrance as a Dubliners for Chinatown...as usual the best part of this charade is the authors one discovers.