Legalized Racism

I eagerly await the left's concerns about this particular brand of racism:

Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian American students through its use of race-conscious admissions, a federal judge ruled in a decision released on Tuesday. Writing that the university's system "passes constitutional muster," Allison D. Burroughs, a U.S. district judge, added that the court "will not dismantle a very fine admissions program … solely because it could do better."

The verdict closes the first chapter in a case that was filed against Harvard in 2014. The university was sued by Students for Fair Admissions, a membership organization that says Harvard’s admissions policies discriminate against Asian American applicants. The organization’s founder is Edward Blum, the same activist who was behind the case that claimed the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions policy discriminated against a white student.

That case made it up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where UT-Austin’s policy was upheld in 2016. Legal scholars say the case against Harvard could wind up there as well, and if it does, it will be decided by a much more conservative bench. A new ruling could have serious implications for how and whether colleges can consider a student’s race when making decisions about whom to admit.

Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions made their cases before Judge Burroughs, of the Federal District Court, in Boston last year. It’s that three-week trial that was decided today. SFFA says that Harvard admissions officers penalize Asian American students when they award points based on applicants’ personalities; Asian Americans consistently ranked lower on that metric and were therefore were denied admission, the group alleged, despite their higher test scores and grades.

In any other context, the so-called disparate impact alone would have decided the issue.

Much of the testimony during the trial came from two expert economists — one for each side — who produced statistical analyses of Harvard’s admissions data. Burroughs, who decided the case rather than a jury, asked pointed questions during the trial about how the economists were interpreting the data and was not afraid to admit that it could, at times, be confusing.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics?

Anyway, it's always interesting how Asians are considered a minority except in the education arena, where they're lumped in with white people.