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THE CASE AGAINST RACE BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
By David Sacks & Peter Thiel
Over the past quarter of a century, Stanford has been discriminating in
favor of racial minorities in admissions, hiring, tenure, contracting and
financial aid. But only recently has the University been forced to rethink
these policies in the face of an emerging public debate over affirmative
action.
We are beginning to see why. Originally conceived as a means to redress
discrimination, racial preferences have instead promoted it. And rather than
fostering harmony and integration, preferences have divided the campus. In
no other area of public life is there a greater disparity between the
rhetoric of preferences and the reality.
Take, for instance, the claim that racial preferences help the "
disadvantaged." In reality, as the Hoover Institution's Thomas Sowell has
observed, preferences primarily benefit minority applicants from middle- and
upper-class backgrounds. At the same time, because admissions are a zero-
sum game, preferences hurt poor whites and even many Asians (who meet
admissions standards in disproportionate numbers). If preferences were truly
meant to remedy disadvantage, they would be given on the basis of
disadvantage, not on the basis of race.
Another myth is that preferences simply give minority applicants a small "
plus." In reality, the average SAT disparity between Stanford's African-
American and white admittees reached 171 points in 1992, according to data
compiled by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and cited in
Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's book, The Bell Curve.
The fundamental unfairness and arbitrariness of preferences -- why should
the under-qualified son of a black doctor displace the qualified daughter of
a Vietnamese boat refugee? -- has led supporters to shift rationales in
recent years. Instead of a remedy for disadvantage, many supporters now
claim that preferences promote "diversity." This same push for "diversity"
also has led Stanford to create racially segregated dormitories, racially
segregated freshman orientation programs, racially segregated graduation
ceremonies and curricular requirements in race theory and gender studies.
But if "diversity" were really the goal, then preferences would be given on
the basis of unusual characteristics, not on the basis of race. The
underlying assumption -- that only minorities can add certain ideas or
perspectives -- is offensive not merely because it is untrue but also
because it implies that all minorities think a certain way. . . . .
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