Comments on: 'Wise Latina' Loses

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:23:21 +0000

JP Strauss is mistaken.

Here in Texas thousands of grossly overqualified white kids, many of them National Merit scholars or its equivalent, have been kicked to the curb so that Texas A&M and UT Austin can admit unqualified blacks and Hispanics. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/DN-braindrain_26met.ART.State.Edition2.4a67ed0.html

Left unmentioned: How poorly blacks and Hispanics do on standardized tests.

So, what was the crack about video games and (allegedly) hardworking Asian students?

Oh yeah, here’s some more evidence to support the view that whites are lazy. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/101209dnmetourecruit.7800dae.html

By: nobama

nobama — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:06:00 +0000

I was denied two jobs in the early 90s as a white male. At least the recruiters were kind enough to let me in on the secret so I’d stop wasting my time. It turned out to be the best thing to ever happen to me actually. The agency I was applying to got their unqualified minority to please the bean counter and I avoided a career that would have limited my growth and had me working as a tax parasite for the government. Looks like Affirmative Action does work after all!

As for the Wise Latina. Yes, I can clearly see the deep wisdom of the Latino culture in how they run all of South America, Central America, Mexico and (of course for Sotomayor) Puerto Rico. I can’t wait to experience what her kind of wisdom can do for our backwards and unwise country and culture.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:30:25 +0000

Ricci etc. won’t hurt her at all. She unashamedly stuck it to Whitey. Thats why Obama picked her and it’s why the democrats in the Senate will confirm her. In fact, they will probably carry her from the room on their shoulders in triumph. Like a matador that just killed a bull and cut both ears.

James Huggins..

By: JP Strauss

JP Strauss — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:23:57 +0000

Funny how “equality” is always interpreted as “at the expense of the white man”.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:04:13 +0000

The 14th Amendment – Article 1 concludes with ” nor deny to ANY PERSON within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” – which means that human rights belong to an INDIVIDUAL and not to groups. However, the Ginsburgian Affirmative Action logic is that the worse whites in general do on a test and the better that blacks do, the more qualified Ricci becomes! In other words, the rights and performance of an individual are tied into the performance of the collective (in this case, a racial or language group). Now while it might be OK for New Haven to use a different race-neutral criteria for promotion (like promoting at random or more emphasis on carrying bodies out of buildings quickly) – to administer a test and then keep changing the rules repeatedly until the “correct” outcome occurs is inherently a pre-ordained denial of due process. Ironically, the crappy education that blacks and Hispanics get in the USA are partially due to the mediocre “public schools” foisted on the kids by the same collectivist idiots who wish to achieve power by elevating the mediocre at the expense of the elite {see Ellsworth Toohey in the Fountainhead}.

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:50 +0000

The fundamental danger posed by demagogues like Sotomayor is the notion that tests are “culturally biased,” which she has claimed publicly to be the case on more than one occasion. This anti-rationalist point of view posits that it is simply IMPOSSIBLE to measure intelligence and merit. I can’t think of anything more dangerous to a free society than the undermining of meritocracy. These Stalinitas loathe free competition because the outcome might not comport with their delusional worldviews. For them, only an omnipotent state (full of wise latinas) can ensure “fairness” and “social justice.”
Furthermore, if IQ tests, SATs, LSATs, MCATs etc etc are so “culturally biased” then why do East Asians, on average outscore Whites? Are Koreans more familiar with Euro-American culture than whites?

[Indeed. And Ashkenazi Jews score higher than the rest. Why?]

By: michel cloutier

michel cloutier — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:30:33 +0000

I applaud at Mr. Strauss’s last sentence about white ‘slackers’ that should work their way in instead of benefiting from free passes at the expense of more deserving candidates. One can wonder why such wisdom seems so rarely directed at Blacks and Latinos as well.

By: JP Strauss

JP Strauss — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:22:59 +0000

Obviously I'd like to see a lot of white faces on campus, but not at the expense of those that deserve more to be there. If the entire MIT is flooded with Asians, then so be it. If the white kids leave their Xboxes alone during the week and concentrate harder, they'll find that the Asian kids aren't that much smarter after all, they just tend to work harder at the important things in life. Inequality can be overcome quite easily by hard work.

By: norris hall

norris hall — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:05:29 +0000

Recently The University of California changed it’s admission policy for all 9 of it’s campuses.
Flooded by Asian students who tend to do better than whites on test scores and school grades, the US regents decided to downplay the importance of tests and grades in their admission policy
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ap/48683642.html
“I like to call it affirmative action for whites,” said Ling-chi Wang, a retired professor at UC Berkeley. “I think it’s extremely unfair to Asian-Americans on the one hand and underrepresented minorities on the other.”
The new policy would eliminate the requirement that applicants take two SAT subject tests and reduce the number of students guaranteed admission based on grades and test scores alone. It takes effect for the freshman class of fall 2012.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:22:13 +0000

All men are created equal in regards to rights, but not outcomes.

I could never be a power forward in the NBA.

So, why does some imbecile like Sonia think she is capable of being a Supreme Court justice?