tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post633158490109607545..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: What the Fisher affirmative action case is actually aboutUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75393358607937742372012-10-13T06:01:31.133-07:002012-10-13T06:01:31.133-07:00Thanks for the posts. good stuff. Thanks for the posts. good stuff. how to climbhttp://how-to-climb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31171316102253682682012-10-12T08:06:08.018-07:002012-10-12T08:06:08.018-07:00The 10% rule would not exist if it only helped bla...The 10% rule would not exist if it only helped blacks and latinos... it also helps rural whites. Quite honestly, I have no real sympathy with people who hate the 10% rule. The 10% rule is far superior to the "best of each racial category" nonsense and the whites campaigning against the 10% rule will end up doing a lot of harm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21724732971468560242012-10-11T07:42:14.298-07:002012-10-11T07:42:14.298-07:00Steve, thanks for posting this. The Top 10 percen...Steve, thanks for posting this. The Top 10 percent rule is a horrible process that discriminates against students at the very best high schools ... those most likely to be successful at UT or A&M.<br /><br />My youngest daughter has never made below an A at her top-performing high school yet she did not even crack the top quarter of her class due to the number of students who stock up on AP classes to boost their rankings.<br /><br />It is not unusual for the Asian students at our school to quit activities such as band when they realize that participation will hurt their overall GPA by limiting the number of honors classes they can take to boost class rank.<br /><br />poolsidenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59690926679235481742012-10-10T19:08:36.329-07:002012-10-10T19:08:36.329-07:00The Top Ten Percent rule is not well-loved by many...The Top Ten Percent rule is not well-loved by many. Douglas Laycock (former UT law professor who helped defend AA the first time around) didn't like it because it diluted the overall quality of students...he said the top students from each racial group should be admitted. Same thing you have said would be less destructive. So there have been some challenges to it.BNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33148404420964812202012-10-10T18:59:00.626-07:002012-10-10T18:59:00.626-07:00Would Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's offsprin...Would Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's offspring be classified as Hispanic owing to his mother being from Brazil which the last time I checked was in South America? Would all those South American lingerie models' offspring qualify for the same benefit? Of course Mrs. Brady is as white as Mr. Brady owing to being completely German by descent ( Wikipedia states she is a sixth generation German Brazilian, from a heavily German area of Brazil ) In other words, she is as white as Steffi Graf is, whose husband's ethnicity might qualify him as an Middle Eastern American, I guess, owing to his father's Iranian birth. Wow, so the offspring of two different multimillionaire power couples could both qualify as "minorities" when time comes to apply to Harvard and Stanford. So poor European and Asian descended kids not only will be deficient money wise but won't have the benefit of preferential policies that these kids have, Isn't American a great country?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4713655844273155202012-10-10T18:50:37.253-07:002012-10-10T18:50:37.253-07:00Exactly. I long been bemused by the horror express...Exactly. I long been bemused by the horror expressed by fanatics like Garaufis at any disparate impact resulting from perfectly reasonable merit-based tests, whereas just about every Democratic Party domestic policy program, from Obama care on down, has at its very core the deliberate goal of a disparate impact in favor of its Black/Hispanic/gay/whatever client groups.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5174239353034995452012-10-10T17:24:55.334-07:002012-10-10T17:24:55.334-07:00"This is an example of why people need to don...<em>"This is an example of why people need to donate to this blog."</em><br /><br />True. That Conquistadors line alone deserves to put food on the table for a week.Cail Corishevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84734214988008072552012-10-10T17:23:06.911-07:002012-10-10T17:23:06.911-07:00If the Top Ten Percent plan increases the number o...If the Top Ten Percent plan increases the number of NAMs accepted to college, that can only happen if the high schools are considerably segregated. Isn't segregation the biggest evil of all, though? If diversity is such an important part of the college experience, don't high school kids deserve a heaping helping of it too?Cail Corishevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44400954585457525672012-10-10T16:55:54.452-07:002012-10-10T16:55:54.452-07:00The "Top Ten Percent plan" is exceptiona...The "Top Ten Percent plan" is exceptionally nutty even by the standards of government. It would be one thing if it was based on the top ten percent of students in a state, but that would too logical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9299265810420799192012-10-10T16:55:45.455-07:002012-10-10T16:55:45.455-07:00"His wife is a white lady whose mother was bo..."His wife is a white lady whose mother was born in Spain, so their kid was honored at their high school graduation in the College Board's National Hispanic Recognition Program."<br /><br />If white kids who can be called hispanic are recognizable achievers, it proves that hispanics achieve just as well as whites and that you're just a miserable racist who should shut up about all the amerinds who can be called hispanic extra-legally immigrating here because they are obviously just as smart as you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61602332879383137352012-10-10T16:41:16.921-07:002012-10-10T16:41:16.921-07:00Not everyone in Texas is a fan of the Top 10% rule...Not everyone in Texas is a fan of the Top 10% rule. My daughter was in National Honor Society and was in the top 12% of a very competitive high school class in suburban Austin. UT-Austin told her she could go to another UT campus, take certain courses and if she earned at least a 3.0 GPA during her freshman year, she could transfer to Austin as a sophomore. But she was accepted at Texas A&M so she went there. <br /><br />After two successful years she managed to transfer to UT-Austin, graduating two years later, and made the Dean's List twice in four semesters. Funny how a white girl who was rejected by UT could make the Dean's list there. She is a loyal Longhorn but still wanted to rub their nose in her success. Oh, and they gave her $1000 for graduating college in four years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48379925532475536522012-10-10T16:31:28.221-07:002012-10-10T16:31:28.221-07:00Steve notes in the VDare piece he linked:
"J...Steve notes in the VDare piece he linked:<br /><br />"John Derbyshire once told me that in his Long Island neighborhood, blue-collar women consider FDNY guys the most desirable catches as husbands; they tend to be more stable than the similarly well-paid NYPD."<br /><br />On the relative lovableness of cops and firemen, a friend of mine in the NYPD once pointed me to this on YouTube, which is very funny and NSFW:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgctZDpHSQslumber_jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17257463318059317482012-10-10T16:21:20.354-07:002012-10-10T16:21:20.354-07:00"Your Conquistador ancestors didn't mow d...<i>"Your Conquistador ancestors didn't mow down the Indians to have pay list price at SMU."</i><br /><br />Almost did a spit take at Starbucks reading that. One of the funniest things you've ever written.DaveinHackensackhttp://www.thehackensack.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46021429059495660312012-10-10T16:18:17.827-07:002012-10-10T16:18:17.827-07:00This is an example of why people need to donate to...This is an example of why people need to donate to this blog.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75067739573914282732012-10-10T15:49:57.161-07:002012-10-10T15:49:57.161-07:00What is the NHRP's definition of Hispanic/Lati...What is the NHRP's definition of Hispanic/Latino?<br />To qualify for this program, you must be at least one-quarter Hispanic/Latino. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnic category, not a racial category; you may be of any race. For purposes of the NHRP, you must be from a family whose ancestors came from at least one of these countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay or Venezuela.Vichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02557214517005144944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24935457201213380342012-10-10T15:47:06.720-07:002012-10-10T15:47:06.720-07:00This business of people from Spain getting authori...This business of people from Spain getting authorized as "Hispanic" or "Latino" for the purposes of affirmative action drives me crazy.<br /><br />Yes, Admiral Farragut is now a Latino, because his father was from Minorca. <br /><br />Totally insane.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com