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Sailer In TakiMag: Adversity Is The New Diversity

By Steve Sailer

07/05/2023

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:

Now that the Supreme Court has finally ruled that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection of the laws” clause, what will the Establishment come up with next to put its thumb on the scale in favor of blacks?

One word that you’ll be hearing is likely to be “adversity.”

For example, The New York Times headlined:

With End of Affirmative Action, a Push for a New Tool: Adversity Scores

To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Can it work nationally?

The idea is to statistically formalize the current process in which high school students write essays whining about all the discrimination they faced: “Somebody tried to touch my hair.”

Read the whole thing there.

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