When Will Asian Americans Get Reparations For Current Discrimination?

  

   Harvard University, and a broad range of other academic institutions, ranging from private colleges to public high schools, are discriminating against Asian Americans, on the basis of racial preference for African Americans and Latin Americans who do not score as high on standardized tests. The premise for this discrimination is that African and Latino Americans have faced "historical discrimination." That may well be true, but it also applies to Asian Americans, who are still being discriminated against. 

   There are so many levels to address this on, the first being how Harvard, and other Ivy League universities discriminated against Jews, decades ago. They used a version of "social scoring" to say that these students did not meet the qualifications to be admitted. Guess what? That's exactly what they are doing to Asian American students today.

   What is further aggravating is that if they are bending the standards to make up for past discrimination against African Americans and Latinos, when are they going to make reparations to the Asian American students? When their test scores fall below the average? Why is one minority, that has been successful in the face of racial adversity being punished for that success?

   I have another, deeper question, for the academic administrators. Why do you think that lowering standards for any racial group is a good idea? That is a racist policy, that has no place in an institution that is trying to give equal opportunity to all students. That policy seems to set up students for failure, or forces educators to lower standards for passing their classes. 

   It seems to me that people who think that any person can not achieve the goals that anyone else can, because of their race, and historic racism that happened to their parents, or other people of their race, years before,  is handicapping that person in an unfair way. Making someone feel like a victim, and telling them that they don't have to be as qualified as another person is not doing them any favors.

   Just imagine if you are an Asian American student, whose parents are struggling to get by. They pushed you to study hard, and do your school work. You are rewarded by being rejected from all of the schools you applied for, because they give preferences to another kid, who is from one of the "preferred" minority groups. I guess you would be concerned about the outcome of this lawsuit in the SCOTUS, which may well end the discrimination against Asian Americans.

   Justice Roberts said it best, in another case about this subject. Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his plurality opinion that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”