I don't think the experiences are equivalent. Private universities don't have to admit anyone if they don't want to. It's silly to talk about them, when they d

I don't think the experiences are equivalent. Private universities don't have to admit anyone if they don't want to. It's silly to talk about them, when they do all sorts of wonky things. There is no doubt there exists discrimination against Asian-Americans in some American public universities. I think the real question is whether or not there is a systemic or conspiratorial discrimination. In the Soviet Union, where anti-Semitism in education was known to be organized, the State gave harder tests and used the poorer test scores as proof of legitimacy. In the United States, Asian Americans perform above average (though not necessarily substantially so). It doesn't seem to match the character of a conspiracy, at least as we understand it historically. Black students perform considerably worse than average on the ACT standardized tests nationally than Asian Americans perform better. They are underrepresented in college, overrepresented in poverty. Black children, who cannot choose to whom they are born, are overrepresented in the worst school districts. Our government's interests in affirmative action are incredibly complicated, much more so than in the Soviet Union. Recall that until 1954, less than one generation prior to the experience of the gentleman in the article, black students were generally not co-educated with white students in much of America. Pre-Brown v. Board and Jewish Questions is the evidence of systemic, organized discrimination. Not excellent test scores. You and many of the commenters have the consequence of the evidence completely backwards. There is a solution: We live in a free country. If Asian Americans are discriminated against in universities—which I remind you I believe to be true, just not in a conspiratorial way—the best solution is to found a goddamned university for Asian Americans. That wasn't an option in the Soviet Union. Now do we all understand why the experiences aren't equivalent?