Re: Great physicist rejected by anti-semitic M.I.T.

In article <fb9kjn$f2t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Goldfarb <slg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In <1188580603.206408.33730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> KarenElizabeth <karenelizabeth3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

How do they *discriminate* against Asians and Jews?

Of course some things are zero-sum games. If an African American is
admitted to Harvard, somewhere there is another person of unknown
ethnic origin who isn't admitted. That's the price that we pay for
diversity.

But in education, what is the point of diversity?

It is one thing to use affirmative to admit someone who
has the necessary abilities and is willing to make up
deficiencies in preparation, recognizing that they are
there. It is quite another to say that the proportion of
applicants in that category MUST be the same, or even
comparable.

Alas, the educationists and leftists are not willing to
admit a major genetic effect, although this is obvious
to anyone who is willing to consider the data. There IS
an environmental effect as well, but when the policy is
to assume that those with comparable formal educational
credentials are comparably educated, only bad results
can occur. I have seen too much to be willing to assume
that it can be otherwise.
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