Asian Americans defeat affirmative action

The (chinese) tiger mother pride defeats the California Democratic machine.

That said congratulations are premature. As far as Asian Americans are concerned, the problem of being whiter than whites is that one day the whites will get wise and ask: dude where is my uni seat? That day may have been postponed but it is coming. Proportional representation (aka quotas) is a powerful weapon in the hands of the less privileged (as also seen in India). Be very afraid.

And as far as black/hispanic pressure groups the real target was falling populations at UC Berkeley and UCLA. However they ignore (perhaps intentionally) that the famous two are now admitting more poor students and that is a worthy target as well.

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Democrats in California are in a state of shock at the defeat of their
effort to reinstate racial preferences in university admissions….The state Senate approved a measure 27-9 to ask voters in
November to overturn the ban. Little did it expect the backlash that ensued.

California’s politically sleepy Asian-American community, in defiance of its
own civil
rights leaders, mounted a massive grassroots campaign to kill the measure.
It made phone calls, wrote letters, blanketed the airwaves. Ultimately, not
only did the Assembly abandon the proposal, but three Asian senators who
originally supported the measure reversed themselves.

The liberal idea of racial justice is proportional representation under
which each group is represented in proportion to its population at universities
and other institutions. The whole point of scrapping Prop 209 is to hand
university officials the power to ignore student test scores and grades to
create a more balanced student body based on racial criteria.

Setting aside the moral objections to putting groups rather than individuals
at the heart of a scheme of social justice, such racial balancing is profoundly
at odds with Asian-American interests. They represent the single largest ethnic
group among the University of California’s 173,000 undergraduates. They form
about 14 percent of the Golden State’s population, but in 2008, they constituted 40 percent of the student body at
University of California, Los Angeles, and 43 percent at University of
California, Berkeley — California’s most selective public universities — as
well as 50 percent at University of California, San Diego and 54 percent at
University of California, Irvine. They had an admission rate of 73 percent compared to 63 percent
of all in-state applicants last year.

Trying to perform a racial balancing act in a country that was neatly
divided into two groups — the white discriminators and the black discriminated
— was one thing. But pulling it off in a diverse country with diverse groups
with diverse histories and diverse interests is quite another. 

regards