Originally published at: Black, Asian enrollment down after affirmative action ends
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White supremacists are not gonna let you into the club, guys. Sorry, we tried to tell you.
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The lawyers involved? Did they know? Is that the question? Fuck yes, they knew. These are not stupid people. That they found some gullible Asian students they managed to convince were being harmed by affirmative action doesn’t mean they believed that shit. They knew exactly what they were doing, and so did Thomas, Alito, et al on the Supreme Court. The leopards are dining on their plaintiffs’ faces, not on the lawyers’.
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That word has long been a dog whistle, implying that non-white people somehow aren’t getting in by earned merit. But the people who open doors are and were never looking at students based only on performance.
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They love to use “colorblind” as if it’s inherently virtuous trait rather than a conscious choice to overlook the impact created by centuries of discrimination and privilege.
It’s like saying “our tuition system is class-blind” when you’re eliminating the financial aid programs that make it possible for people who aren’t crazy rich to attend your university.
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Huge jump in Asian enrollment at MIT though. This whole topic has become hopelessly politicized; it’s true that the right has grabbed onto it like a bunch of racist alligators.
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Working as intended.
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According to mitadmissions.org over the past 4 years MIT enrolled 41% Asian American students and this year it is 47%. Is that a “huge jump”?
For comparison, Black enrollment decreased from 13% to 5% for the same years
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As far as the gatekeepers are concerned a smart Asian student is still not white? Never saw that coming.
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Maybe the schools which saw downturns in Asian enrollment were the second choice schools for Asians (who are now going to MIT)?
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What would a “non-politicized” version of this topic even look like?
Politics is the means by which our society creates, maintains and regulates systems of power.
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It became politicized when white Americans (specifically, white anglo-saxon protestant men) built a fucking system to benefit them and only them, leaving out any people of color for literally centuries… Pushing to correct historical acts of oppression that STILL has influence on our systems today should not be political - it should be understood as correct those historical wrongs. 
It’s only considered “political” when it’s people looking to correct forms of oppression… then it’s “politicized and wrong”… when it’s imposing fascism on the rest of is, it’s as god intended… 
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Also, there was a similar percentage drop in Asian American enrollments at Duke, Yale, and Princeton, so I don’t know what the point was of cherry picking the one school where it went up.
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In addition, it’s worth remembering that the term was originally intended a pejorative, focused more on the preservation of social class privilege rather than skin privilege but with the same effect.
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I came here to post exactly this.
The plaintiffs got exactly what they wanted.
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Here is better data:
Brief summary of averages: Very little change in the white category, modest increase of asians, modest decrease of hispanics, big decrease of blacks.
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How are you coming to that conclusion from that data? It just shows the percentage change at individual institutions. In order to see what the overall change was, you’d need to know the enrollment numbers at each institution. A 33% increase at Amherst College doesn’t represent that many students. An almost 16% decrease at Yale and a 13% decrease at Duke is a lot more students. Also, the representation of that data is weird. They chose to report the difference in the percentage of students from the past two years to this year. So for Asian American students at Amherst, that’s 33%, and at Columbia it’s 30%. But those schools are at very different points on the scale, in terms of the percentage of Asian Americans at the school. That presentation makes it look like they had the same change, when they very much did not.
In summary…why do you say it’s better data? It sure doesn’t look like better data to me.
Also, ERN claims to be an advocate for better public schools, especially for historically disadvantaged students, but they’re also a major proponent of charter schools, merit-based pay for teachers, and teacher performance testing. And that makes me highly suspicious of their motives in evaluating the impact of the loss of affirmative action programs in higher education. First of all, higher education isn’t in their wheelhouse. Second, I just don’t trust anyone who is promoting charter schools.
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Indeed.
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