哈佛诉讼爆料后，我能说些什么？

 

哈佛诉讼文件爆出的惊人歧视引起各大媒体批判，我们还可以说什么？难道要辩驳我们不是单一族群，我们性格也不差？那岂不是落入圈套了吗？真有人相信一个横跨60多族群，中高低收入和几代移民的亚裔在性格上有共同的缺陷？被同样歧视的犹太人如果也是接受了如此不羁的歪曲，还能有底气抗争五十多年吗？

Students for Fair Admissions revealed, through rigorous academic research of 160,000 applicants over 6 years, that Harvard engaged in blatant discrimination against Asian American students. After much media coverage, what more do I still have to say? 

1. I call out Harvard to admit its own conscious, intentional, and blatant lies of Asian Am students’ low personality ratings. Judging from the thousands of reader responses, no one believes such a lie. Readers see through a ploy used by Harvard to exclude qualified Asian Am students, thus maintaining a soft quota. Granted that some in the public have differing views over affirmative action policies, none, however, questioned for a second the expert study of 6 years of admissions records and Harvard’s own internal research. It is an open secret! Even a student recognizes that the emperor had no clothes: “If you want to not let me into a university because I represent a racial/ethnic group that is 5% of the population and 20% of the student body, just say that. Don't tell me it's because I have a bad personality!”
2. I call out those Asian American researchers (ie Jennifer Lee, Jia Lynn Yang, Jannelle Wong) to confront Harvard’s outrageous mistreatment of Asian Am students, instead of continuously writing articles advocating race based affirmative action while blasting the lack of “assimilation” of our children (eg Lee’s LA oped couple of months ago). To our horror, in her most recent tweet, NYT’s deputy editor Jia Lynn Yang even singled out recent immigrants from  mainland China as the single group opposing race based admissions! These Asian American studies researchers and journalists are doing a huge disservice to advancing equal rights of Asian Americans. It is time for them to see through the lies and discrimination as correctly pointed out by the National Review, the WSJ, the Hill etc. I kept wondering what will it take for these researchers to face the truth. I kept wondering when they will lend their voice to the voiceless students who were unfairly rejected and who were beating themselves up thinking what part of their applications have gone wrong. Can these researchers finally say “there is nothing wrong, except your race?”
3. I call out the media to confront Harvard’s lie and discrimination. For decades, the media has played into Harvard’s (and elite universities) deceitful portrait of monolithic, one dimensional applicants, to the detriment of our children’s psychological well being. Unconscious bias is easy to ignore but systematic discrimination under the disguise of “holistic” evaluation, and amplified by the media, is extremely difficult to pin point and to shake off. It is time for the media to reflect on how to change course, to advocate for Asian Americans who not only have been horribly treated historically (the Chinese Exclusions and the Japanese Internment etc.) but are still facing tremendous obstacles, not just in the area of higher education but also career development and political advancement.
4. I call out our fellow Asian American families to stand united with the AACE, who has been saying for years that our students do NOT lack in any aspect of personality traits. We’ve been calling students to stand firm and confident in our contribution to America’s prosperity, innovation, creativity and no doubt diversity, because we are not a monolithic group with one dimensional character! However, after decades of misinformation, some families have already internalized such discrimination, and they understandably disagreed with AACE’s position, conjecturing that the low admissions rate (as compared to the number of qualified applicants) must be due to some weaknesses on our part. Some fierce criticism the AACE faces includes “we the Asians are not special, why are you asking for special treatment?” This implies that those of us who stood up against discrimination is greedy, wanting “more” than our share. The Harvard lawsuit finally confirmed what we believed for years, that we are not being treated equally. How long will these families still maintain their silence? Can we have more students who stand up to such injustice? 
5. I call out courts, especially the Supreme Court to re-evaluate, in light of such indisputable evidence of racial balancing, the significant negative impact of race based admissions on Asian American students. In the Fisher II dissenting opinion, Justice Alito correctly pointed out that the majority opinion ignored such negative impact because they (the four justices who sided with University of Texas) might think such a negative impact on Asians American students was tolerable. We say loud and clear today: it is NO LONGER tolerable!
6. I call out the Asian American politicians to truly advocate on our behalf, and not just treat us as a bank roll. When you come to our community for fundraising, when you flaunt your Asian face in the attempt to identify with us, have you dug deeper by recognizing what challenges we are facing? Politics shouldn’t be your stepping stone to an  exalted world, but a way to serve the community who raised you.  

 

What NOT  to say 

 

1. That Asians are not a monolithic group: so what? 1) Are the Chinese a monolithic group? When the Jews were singled out, was it because they were a monolithic group? 2) Whether Jews or Asians or Chinese, students should be evaluated as individuals. 
2. That Low rating is merely stereotype or bias. 1) This gives Harvard the excuse that some bias are unconscious, and unavoidable. Then Harvard can get away with implementing some superficial sensitivity training. 2) Do not give Harvard this ammunition. 
3. That Asians do not lack personality, leadership or creativity. No need to argue on this. No one believes the rating anyway. It is a trap.

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杭州阿立 (2019-02-08 11:28:18)

怪不得俺家小阿立、小小阿立也木有进哈佛。 哈哈，也跟着海云开个玩笑。

海云 (2018-06-21 20:53:52)

怪不得你我的儿子都没进哈佛！哈哈，开玩笑。