A Little-Understood Engine of Campus Unrest: Racial Admissions Preferences

American Spectator

Why are some of the most privileged students in the nation plunging into a racial grievance culture and upending their campuses as though oppressed by Halloween costumes they don’t approve, imagined racial slights, portraits of Woodrow Wilson, a tiny handful of real racial epithets, and the like? The reasons are of course multifaceted. But one deserves far more attention than it has gotten: Many or most of the African-American student protesters really are victims — but not of old-fashioned racism. Most are, rather, victims of the very large admissions preferences that set up racial-minority students for academic struggle at the […]

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