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A story that has been circulating on social media highlights the rejection of a young man from Ivy League institutions despite an impeccable academic and professional resume. Many have interpreted his rejection as evidence of a deeply flawed system that privileges racial minorities over white applicants.
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Pretty stock Thomas Sowell analysis. I do think this article ignores major civilizational pathologies that affirmative action does engender. For decades, the most successful blacks are among the most strident and passionate anti-White, anti-American and thus anti-civilizational people. They have disproportionate power and influence which they use to attack our civilization. How much energy is wasted fending off these attacks, and given our state one must conclude that we have given up and the foundations are free to be bashed in at will.
These academic student sinecures lead to tremendous resentment. The person resents being admitted as a charity, and admits being inferior in performance and incapable of catching up. They resent being at the party and saying, “I went to Harvard”, while desperately ashamed of why they got in and what they majored in. All of that gets unleashed on civilization.
This article also ignores another problem. Each of these people take a slot that a White man could have filled. While that White man may find success elsewhere, his civilization ties and energies that may propel it forward is absent in pushing back against the forces of entropy and the forces of entropy are given power and resistence to them are removed.
Having a chance to earn more is not measure enough or consolation enough. The days of that kind of consolation must be numbered as an individual accumulating wealth has not saved our civilization. What will save it is the progenitors of our civilization and those whose entire ancestry is bound up in it, must not be denied roles in defending and propelling it forward in favor of those who, despite being given the keys to its upper kingdoms, seek only to tear it down.
Many of our young men are suckling at the wolf in the wilderness right now as they have been pogromed from our institutions in an increasingly aggressive and broader push of expulsion. While they are great and doing great things, they cannot push civilization forward if they cannot hold its power to do good in their hands.
May this young man be yet another of our young who is building Astro Mechanica, Radiant, Mach Industries, Anduril … … … May he choose those endeavors on his own not out of no other option available and may he be bolstered by his brothers who wield power by sitting judge, legislating, commanding armies defining and enforcing law and order and creating and extending the pillars of our civilization.
For decades, the most successful blacks are among the most strident and passionate anti-White, anti-American and thus anti-civilizational people. They have disproportionate power and influence which they use to attack our civilization. That is because they make their money by “shaking down” white people and white businesses, a profitable line of work that does not require great intelligence or ability—only white guilt and intimidation! 💩
I don’t like the implication of that emoji, sir. Gorillas are noble, peaceful animals.
Do we really need Negroes informing us that race-leveling, anti-White Affirmative Action social experiments are failed scams?
Forget once pretigious White Ivy League colleges. Concentrate on separation from orher races and their influences on Whites. SEPARATE! Harvard University: The Ivy League teaching remedial math
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Matthews: It becomes clear that affirmative action is not an effective tool for addressing racial income disparities…
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ArminiusMaximus: April 7, 2025 Pretty stock Thomas Sowell analysis…
There’s a great deal of good advice woven in this article. It’s the basics, but don’t forget the basics.
That’s a weird name he’s got.
I’m not so sure 34 on the act is that great anymore. All those schools have averages of like 35. And he doesn’t mention his SAT, or ap tests which may tell a different story. 4.0 sounds good, but many times these high schools now have a five point scale with honors classes and stuff so in fact his GPA might be sort of mediocre. Depending on how hard his high school was, he may not be all that impressive an applicant. He would be better off in state school anyhow. Those elite schools are expensive and don’t do all that much for you. People tend to end up in the same level professional school afterwards that they would’ve been in before. I’ve seen that a million times–kids go off to these top ten schools and then are stuck at the same graduate level school as everybody else.
That young man, Zach Yadegari, appears to be an Iranian Jew, not wise to the ways of American admissions officers. He did a foolish thing in applying to about 18 institutions. (Or maybe he’s lying, but that certainly doesn’t make him look smarter.) Did he imagine that no one would know? That admissions officers don’t talk to each other? That ETS and the ACT people don’t know how many copies of your test results get sent out?
His personal statement was probably submitted with each and every application, and shows a boastful, grandiose sort of character. Pretty amusing, actually. His “killer app” for mobile is equally silly. You download it, and it looks at a picture of food (a Twinkie? a plate of spinach?) and it tells you how many calories it has! As novel and ultimately useful as a Pet Rock or Tamagotchi. Later Zach compares himself to Steve Jobs, seeking inspiration in a rock garden in Kyoto!
Another one for the round file.
Iranian Jews tend to be a smart group as well. I’ve encountered several of them during my life.
When students mismatched for Ivy League universities have to drop out, not only is it a painful memory, they’re also crushed by exorbitant student loans for overpriced education. Preferential treatment isn’t helping them.
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