This isn’t the rule of law, it’s the rule of woke. From the Department of Justice to the Department of Defense to the Department of Education, the only policies the government implements now are leftist agenda items.
The level of totalitarian corruption here is that of a banana republic in which the Biden administration operates the entire government purely for the purpose of supporting its politics and suppressing those of its opponents. This is a government where cabinet officials decide what they’re going to do based on their viewing of MSNBC.
When Harvard was caught red-handed discriminating against Asian applicants, the Department of Education shrugged and tossed the complaint without even evaluating it.
The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court where a majority of justices ended systemic racism in college admissions.
Biden’s Secretary of Education Cardona responded to the court’s decision by claiming that ending systemic racism in college admissions “takes our country decades backward” and that “our efforts to promote diversity in higher education are undeterred. The Department of Education is a civil rights agency, committed to equal access and educational opportunity for all students.”
Now, the Department of Education, which under Obama refused to investigate Harvard’s discrimination against Asians, has decided to investigate Harvard over legacy admissions.
The US Department of Education has begun a civil rights investigation into whether Harvard University discriminates in its admissions process by giving preferential treatment to children of wealthy donors and alumni, roughly three weeks after a lawsuit made those allegations.
That lawsuit, filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights on behalf of three minority advocacy groups, alleged the students who receive that preferential treatment are “overwhelmingly White” and make up as much as 15% of Harvard’s admitted students. The plaintiffs called on the Department of Education to investigate Harvard’s use of donor and legacy preferences and “the resulting unjustified disparate impact.”
US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights will now probe whether Harvard “discriminates on the basis of race by using donor and legacy preferences in its undergraduate admissions process in violation of Title VI and its implementing regulations,” according to a Monday letter from Ramzi Ajami, a regional director for the office.
Harvard systemically discriminating against Asian students on the basis of race was not a problem, but disparate impact from formally race-neutral policies that currently happen to benefit white people is.
The complainants are the Chica Project, African Community Economic Development of New England and the Greater Boston Latino Network. Asians are obviously not included.
I’m no fan of legacy admissions, but I’d bet that on the basis of pure merit they’re more qualified than the “diverse” competition.
“The need for the Department of Education to put a stop to this discriminatory practice is particularly acute now that the Supreme Court has severely limited the use of race as a factor in higher education admissions processes, which is expected to have a negative impact on campus diversity. Experts have found that reducing or eliminating Donor and Legacy Preferences enhances diversity in higher education – an interest Harvard has claimed to be of the highest magnitude. The fact is that, if the Donor and Legacy Preferences did not exist, more students of color would be admitted to Harvard,” the lawsuit argues.
More Asian students of color perhaps.