The Myth of American Meritocracy<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0the United States\u00a0has an elite university system that actively despises and excludes ordinary Americans, and does so with extraordinary brazenness — presuming, so far correctly, that\u00a0white gentile Americans are too cowed to make a fuss about it.\u00a0 In Myth<\/i> Unz focuses on admissions practices at Harvard, Yale and Princeton (“HYP”), but really concentrates on Harvard.\u00a0 No doubt, as a Harvard alum, of those three moral and intellectual Superfund sites Harvard is the one Unz knows best and where he has the most contacts.<\/p>\nThe part of Myth<\/i> the media briefly noticed was the first half, where Unz addresses discrepancies in admissions of Asians — by which he really means Orientals, which makes this relevant to the case of violence-prone peace activist Eldo Kim.\u00a0 Unz concluded that Asian applicants are held to a higher standard than (some) others, and thus HYP are holding their numbers down lest their campuses be transformed into ivy-garlanded Chinatowns.<\/p>\n
The second part the media buried instantly: Unz’s two controversial conclusions.\u00a0 The first is that while Asians may be discriminated against to some extent\u00a0in HYP — especially H — admissions, they are not discriminated against to anything like the same degree\u00a0as white gentile Americans, over whom those\u00a0putatively discriminated-against Asians\u00a0are still preferred.\u00a0 The second is the radioactive conclusion, one Unz could publicly acknowledge reaching\u00a0only because\u00a0he is both Jewish and a Harvard grad: HYP — again, especially H — discriminate outrageously in favor of Jewish applicants, to a degree not remotely explained by superior Jewish scholastic performance (something Unz demonstrates is by now largely a\u00a0myth anyway,\u00a0relative to\u00a0high-achieving white gentile Americans).\u00a0 This Unz attributes primarily to ethnic nepotism, witting or otherwise, on the part of largely Jewish admissions staffs\u00a0at HYP.\u00a0 Unz is bracingly frank about the extent to which HYP and several other universities in the United States\u00a0have effectively become Jewish institutions.\u00a0 In that context, Unz makes two further points: (i) Jewish applicants are not disadvantaged by the “need” to reject qualified applicants in order to\u00a0admit the “appropriate”\u00a0quotas of blacks and Latin Americans, and\u00a0therefore (ii) white gentile Americans pay the Affirmative Action\u00a0tariff\u00a0in full.\u00a0 Indeed\u00a0— as Espenshade and Radford noted in their study — traditional American extra-curricular activities (4-H, JROTC, etc.) actively harm one’s chances of admission to HYP and their analogues.<\/p>\n
In criticising you for drawing what he thinks is an unwarranted conclusion about Asian criminality based on Kim’s misbehaviour at Harvard (which I don’t think you did), Steve misses the big issue\u00a0even though it is right there in his comment.\u00a0 From the point of view of ordinary Americans —\u00a0by whom\u00a0I mean white gentile ones, who are still overwhelmingly the largest group\u00a0in the U.S. population and include the descendants of nation’s\u00a0settlers and\u00a0founders\u00a0— the United States’ elite universities, which for better or worse (mostly worse) are primary feeders into the national elite, are\u00a0enemy territory.\u00a0 They are largely run by and for the benefit of people who often\u00a0have no or only shallow roots in America, are often viscerally hostile to the traditional America, and\u00a0exercise their\u00a0hostility by\u00a0keeping their schools’ drawbridges firmly up in the face of what one might well call traditional Americans.\u00a0 Those Americans should find that situation intolerable, but most entirely fail to notice it, except to grumble about the obvious discrimination in favor of blacks and Hispanics.\u00a0 Even when someone like Ron Unz — who actually knows the score — tells the truth\u00a0about it, his article can only see print in a magazine he owns and publishes himself.\u00a0 And, of\u00a0course,\u00a0the rest of the media buried what Unz revealed just as\u00a0soon as they\u00a0could.<\/p>\n
It may be odd that young Harvard Man Kim thinks sending bomb threats is good way to bolster his GPA.\u00a0 But not nearly as odd as that a 377-year-old American (or used to be) college is full of Eldo Kims in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HENRY McCULLOCH writes: That was an interesting, if depressing, post about the\u00a0bizarre behaviour of Model-Korean Harvard undergraduate Eldo Kim.\u00a0 Not for the first time — especially as I know many worthy and fully qualified people whom Harvard rejected (not coincidentally white gentile Americans) and\u00a0a goodly number of\u00a0cretins (the\u00a0overwhelming majority\u00a0not white gentile Americans, despite Harvard’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64722"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64730,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64722\/revisions\/64730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}