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Hi Diane,

Per Kevin MacDonald, Espenshade and Radford show that there is discrimination against poor whites and against non-urban whites—exactly the population groups that are least likely to be Jewish. There is a “a general disregard for improving the admission chances of poor and otherwise disadvantaged whites.” Additionally “when lower-class whites are matched with lower-class blacks and other non-whites the degree of the non-white advantage becomes astronomical: lower-class Asian applicants are seven times as likely to be accepted to the competitive private institutions as similarly qualified whites, lower-class Hispanic applicants eight times as likely, and lower-class blacks ten times as likely. These are enormous differences and reflect the fact that lower-class whites were rarely accepted to the private institutions Espenshade and Radford surveyed. Their diversity-enhancement value was obviously rated very low.” They also found that high school participation in commonly understood white middle America activities dramatically lowered admissions chances: “What Espenshade and Radford found in regard to what they call “career-oriented activities” was truly shocking even to this hardened veteran of the campus ideological and cultural wars. Participation in such Red State activities as high school ROTC, 4-H clubs, or the Future Farmers of America was found to enormously reduce a student’s chances of gaining admission to the competitive private colleges in the NSCE database on an all-other-things-considered basis. The admissions disadvantage was greatest for those in leadership positions in these activities or those winning honors and awards. … Excelling in these activities “is associated with 60 or 65 percent lower odds of admission.” https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/07/16/kevin-macdonald-jewish-overrepresentation-at-elite-universities-explained/

Also see here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs6UWhDWYAEWMF4?format=jpg&name=900x900

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Great writeup. The end result of Kendi-style thinking is that Asians are actually White or White-adjacent. Kendi also never bothers to ask why Nigerian and Ghanaian immigrants do so much better than non-immigrant Black Americans.

And about the federal prison data: a lot of those Asians (and Latinos) are in there for immigration-related offenses. Take those out and the Asian number widens even more!

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"a lot of those Asians (and Latinos) are in there for immigration-related offenses"

Not too many, though, that category is less than 5%.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp

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Another excellent article, Diane...you reveal so many important points! One of the most disturbing is how Asians are so often "left out" of the statistics. So convenient and at the same time, so insulting.

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Brutal logic.

I usually don't know whether to laugh or cry after reading one of your essays.

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