Asians and the California school system

I have to admit a bit of bias before getting to the meat of the matter, here: I’ve always gotten along well with Asian students, particularly northern ones.  During my several years in California’s school system, I never once had a problem with a rude Asian student, never had one steal from me, never knew one who broke the law (although I’m sure they exist, somewhere), never was physically threatened by one, and never had one blame me for any of their shortcomings or demand a handout.  In short, I have no history of bad interactions with Asian students, and to be quite frank, it’s left me with a good impression of them.

So it should come as no surprise to my readers that I’m particularly angered by the UC system, as they’re purposely seeking to lower admissions standards to rid themselves of many of their Asian students.  Not only is this institutional envy shameful and socially dysgenic, but also a poor form of business.  Asians didn’t dominate the UC system by whining like other races, after all.  They became a large portion of the student body by having a superior work ethic and a culture geared toward academic success.  If success is a reason to bar anyone from a college system, you must be a Democrat. 

But aside from the fact that getting rid of the best students only makes economic sense in Stupidville, we can rest assured that this kind of equal opportunity measure is going to fail minority students in exactly the way it was intended to help.  UC faculty may have trouble remembering something this long ago, since pot smoke conveniently erases most conservatism-bolstering facts from the brain (meaning: most useful information), but when Proposition 209 passed in 1996, eliminating racial quotas for the California school system, minority graduation rates actually increased. 

In fact, the National Association of Scholars (NAS) reports that their number of black graduate students in California increased by 19%, and Hispanic graduation rates increased by 38%, exactly the opposite of what Prop-209 opponents claimed would happen.  UC Berkeley actually reported a drop in black enrollments, but reported an increase in black graduations due to more competitive screening.   In an overwhelming victory for black students, UC San Diego actually doubled their black graduation rates after the passage of Prop 209, prompting affirmative action supporters to question whether they wanted more enrollments or graduates.  After all, what good is a higher enrollment rate if you have less graduates?  Yet they still complain about not having racial quotas.

The NAS reports: “ten years after the passage of Proposition 209, non-white ethnic minorities constituted over 60% of all freshmen and transfers at the University of California.When a September 2007 report issued by the UC Undergraduate Work Team of the Study Group on University Diversity constantly advocated the need for a ’solution to UC’s diversity “problem,”‘ one wondered what that ‘problem’ actually was.” The problem, as you may have already guessed, is that the University of California is unconcerned with rewarding a person according to their hard work and aptitude, opting instead to reward very specific racial groups simply for belonging to their racial groups.

Just for kicks, imagine yourself telling a sulking teenage Asian girl that she can’t get into your school, because letting her in wouldn’t be philanthropically beneficial.  Explain to her that we’re all human beings and deserve a chance, so you’re going to admit someone with worse grades, instead.  Imagine yourself explaining how all the hard work she did to get into your school doesn’t matter, and then telling her that she already has enough from life, since she’s Asian.   Sit and think about that, for a moment.

This is no way to run an American institution, my friends.  A good college admission system will take a person’s academic achievements and moral standing into account, and nothing else.  This particular problem–social envy and willful injustice–is why the Lord gave us the tenth commandment: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”  Asian neighbors, like white neighbors, are not exempt from this commandment.

Last, wealth will never be equally distributed amongst the races, and it shouldn’t be.  If two races engender different behavioral trends–and it is plainly obvious that they do–then they will accumulate wealth differently.  Suggesting otherwise, that different behaviors should have equal results, is communist, and has no place in the United States of America. Here, you only get what you want if you work hard for it, have the talent for it, are in the right place for it, and play by the rules for it.  Anyone interested in another system should take a hike up to Canada.

But if these “humanitarians” continue trying to boot Asians out of the system, I have a fun solution. Round up a few really intelligent Asian lawyers (it should be easy to find some), follow the law and affirmative actionize the NBA: force more white and Asian players into the game.  Seems that Leftists conveniently forgot to racially harmonize it.

“I don’t care if every seat is taken by Asians, as long as they have earned the right to be there.” -Ronald Reagan

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What do we do?

-Tell your Asian friends about UC’s plans, and get them on board the conservative movement to reward success.

-Let the University of California know how you feel about this topic. Contact them here.

-Repeal any and all affirmative action legislation.  Communist principles have no place in America.

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