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    Time to Fight Anti-White Racism on Campus

    If racism is wrong, then it is wrong.

    Time to Fight Anti-White Racism on Campus

    A few weeks ago, something unusual happened at the University of Chicago, where I am a student. Vineet Arora, the dean for medical education, received a powerful letter from the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR), a civil rights nonprofit, expressing concerns about a program proposed by her administration that would have paid a $2,000 monthly stipend and provided exclusive networking and mentoring opportunities to certain medical students.

    The catch? “Successful applicants,” the program overview states, “will advance our diversity and inclusion mission.” In other words, white students were to be excluded. But that, as FAIR noted, would violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits any institution that receives federal funds from discriminating based on race. Dean Arora, in turn, quietly indicated to FAIR in a curt email that she and her fellow administrators would be “updating their materials in order to ensure compliance with the law.”

    It was a rare moment—the successful routing of anti-white discrimination...

    Yet despite all that, there were no calls from any white students to get her fired. There were no protests, boycotts, or public outrages by any students of any color....

    By contrast, much fanfare surrounded the attempted lynching of economics professor Harald Uhlig, at the University of Chicago, after he criticized Black Lives Matter as riots erupted across the country. Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman joined other high-profile academics in suggesting Uhlig lose his editorship of the Journal of Political Economy. Amid the furor, a student claimed Uhlig had “made fun of Dr. King and people honoring him” during a class session, triggering an investigation by the administration. Uhlig said he didn’t recall the incident, as if that mattered.

    Unlike Arora, Uhlig had not proposed racially discriminating against anyone. But it was Uhlig, not Arora, who was forced to publicly clear his name and suffered harm to his reputation....
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    We need a President that puts an end to this instead of encouraging it to buy votes.
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    We need a President that puts an end to this instead of encouraging it to buy votes.

    We had a president like that.
    "LET'S GO BRANDON!"

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    Right, but no President should be so powerful. Congress should make law, and face consequences.
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    Without getting too specific, my department has a prestigious society and scholarship program just for black students that it doesn't offer to other students and there are no other society-type opportunities. I just shake my head and go about my business because I really don't care since I found funding through other means (like a more prestigious fellowship through a different department on the basis of merit, haha). I understand and appreciate that I probably had advantages along the way, and for that reason I can see why there are opportunities during admissions or for students facing economic hardship, but to base something entirely on race when we're all in the same spot of being on the cusp of reaching the pinnacle of our field? That money could help underprivileged undergrads or something...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    If racism is wrong, then it is wrong.

    Time to Fight Anti-White Racism on Campus
    Perfectly said. Racism is wrong than all racism is wrong. This silly notion that one way racism brought us here and one way racism can fix us needs to be called out for the bull$#@! it is.
    I've often wondered how quotas , affirmative action, adding SAT points to black students resumes and all the rest have been legal. I came to the conclusion that the government reserves the right to break it's own rules.

    There are many Constitutional challenges I would like to see now that we have a textualist court.
    Among them AA and it's divisive cousins, random assault weapon bans, transitioning kids without parental approval and the federal government's role in drug policy within the states and in human services policy at all. Not to mention arts endowments and other pork. Not federal business. I'm not sure how these long accepted intrusions could be brought there, but I would love to see it happen before the inevitable packing of the court.

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