{"id":8374,"date":"2013-11-10T04:43:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T04:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/10\/bozo-de-blasio-new-york-city-and-lack-of-diversity\/"},"modified":"2013-11-10T04:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T04:43:56","slug":"bozo-de-blasio-new-york-city-and-lack-of-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/10\/bozo-de-blasio-new-york-city-and-lack-of-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bozo De Blasio, New York City, and ‘Lack of Diversity’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a  piece<\/a> both pithy and penetrating by David P. Goldman (HT: Bill Keezer):<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

There has been considerable hand-wringing<\/a> during the past few years about \u201clack of diversity\u201d in the eight public high schools [of NYC] that require written exams. Asians are 14% of the public school population, but 50% of the elite high school population (the same proportion applies to Hunter College\u2019s<\/a> free public high school). By and large the Asian entrants are the children of working-class immigrants who pay extra tuition to prepare them for the entrance exams.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NAACP has filed a complaint<\/a> against the school system demanding racial quotas. The same concern for those \u201cleft behind\u201d motivated the open admissions program in the City University system in 1969, which nearly ruined the system until CUNY found a way to shunt the underperformers into the community college system. (See chart at bottom of page.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The above clearly illustrates what is so deeply wrong with the liberal-left way of thinking.  It is true that Asians are disproportionately represented in the best NYC high schools.  But this is not anything that needs remedying.  It simply reflects the fact that Asians, as a group, have different values than blacks, better study habits, and are of higher intelligence.  Notice, I said as a group<\/em>.  That's reality.  But leftists are here as elsewhere in the business of reality denial.  Leftists confuse the world with the way they would like the world to be.  But things are as they are regardless of human hopes and dreams and desires.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Some inequalities have come about through wrongs that ought to have been righted, and have been righted.  But the inequality of Asians and blacks as regards values and study habits and intelligence has not come about though any wrongdoing.  Slavery was outlawed almost 150 years ago when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution was ratified on 6 December 1865.  Jim Crow was outlawed almost 50 years ago.  There is no de jure<\/em> racism in the U. S.  and very little de facto<\/em> racism.  The 'overrepresentation' of Asians is the predictable outcome of the differences between Asian and black culture, values, and innate intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, one ought to be very careful with the word 'overrepresent' and its opposite.  It is ambiguous as between normative and nonnormative readings.  It is just a value-neutral fact that there are proportionately more Asians than blacks in the elite high schools of NYC.  But it doesn't follow that this state of affairs is one that ought not be, or that it would be better if there were proportional representation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider the sports analogy.  Asians are 'underrepresented' on basketball teams.  That is a fact.  But it doesn't follow that this state of affairs is one that ought not
\nbe, or that it would be better if there were proportional
\nrepresentation.  Enforced proportional representation would adversely affect the quality of basketball games.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since we are now back to the delightful and heart-warming topic of race\/ ethnicity, let's talk about Jews.  They are 'overrepresented' in the chess world<\/a> so much so that there is much truth to the old joke that chess is Jewish athletics.  Should the government do something about this 'problem'?  (This is what is called a rhetorical question.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I once told my Jewish and Israeli friend Peter that I had never met a stupid Jew.  He shot back, "Then you've never lived in Israel."  The very alacrity of his comeback, however, proved (or at least provided further evidence for) my point.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that I am not now, and never have been, either an Asian or a Jew or an Israeli. 
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From a  piece both pithy and penetrating by David P. Goldman (HT: Bill Keezer): There has been considerable hand-wringing during the past few years about \u201clack of diversity\u201d in the eight public high schools [of NYC] that require written exams. Asians are 14% of the public school population, but 50% of the elite high school … Continue reading “Bozo De Blasio, New York City, and ‘Lack of Diversity’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}