@JohnHuffam1812
"It's destroying universities, it's destroying comedy and the arts, it makes for really shit tv, it's destroying publishing and literature. It produces and encourages bad history, as Adolph Reed demonstrates. It justifies denying people entry to places like Harvard on the basis of their race and calls it progress."
Really? Give me an example of how peope are being denied entry to places like Harvard.
It isn't destroying universities, or TV or anything else.
This was a huge story, perhaps if you don't remember it you aren't in a position to be commenting in the way you are.
It came out, much to Harvard's embarrassment, they they purposefully weighted their entrance criteria in such a way that Asia students were severely disadvantaged. And not just Harvard but other Ivy Legue universities - Asian students needed to score about 140 points higher than white students to be admitted, while white students needed to score higher than black or hispanic students. This was finangled by systematically scoring candidates on personal qualities in a way that favoured members of groups with fewer qualified applicants.
The problems in academia have also been very well documented and if you ask academics about it they will tell you straight out what is going on, many of them are deeply worried and many looking to get out of the academy. It is affecting research topics, funding, academics being no-platformed, it's really very serious.
The same with the arts, funding and subject matter are being distorted, and those artists who are not famous enough to weather controversy will not get hired, not get asked to sit on boards, not get offered shows.
Many famous comedians have spoken out about it - Chris Rock IIRC says he won't play university campuses because of it. And again, it's the ones who are starting out, who aren't yet rich, who are most affected.
What is really fascinating is that the people speaking out against this are hardly obviously the people who are supposedly so bad according to the woke. Many of them are members of racial minorities, not heterosexual, women, etc. Many of them are in fact artists, comics, writers, academics, scientists. If you look at polling in the US some of the people most concerned are Native Americans and Hispanics, particularly those who are working class.
And then we get these people who seem to think if they keep saying nothing is going on everyone will not notice.