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...professor at the University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat of the 19th century, where academics define the parameters of discussion and defend the racist thinking of their colleagues...
Also unsubstantiated is Mansfield's assertion that Harvard's excellence "is compromised by the desire for diversity." Nearly all of its minority graduates--ostensibly those who benefited from affirmative action in getting in--have gone on to successful and fulfulling careers. Unable to empirically demonstrate inferior performance by minority students while at Harvard, Mansfield instead lashes out against grade inflation, an entirely separate issue...
...school board since 1994. He feels the underlying assumptions of desegregation are patronizing to blacks--as does Justice Thomas. "It never ceases to amaze me," wrote Thomas in his Missouri v. Jenkins concurrence, "that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior...
Judge Roger Miner, writing for the Second Circuit, uncomprehendingly admits the reality of the nightmare: "It seems clear that some physicians [in the Netherlands] practice nonvoluntary euthanasia, although it is not legal to do so." Well, why would such things occur in the Netherlands? Are the people there morally inferior to Americans? Are the doctors somehow crueler and more uncaring...
...added that student preference was by far the leading concern, even overriding such practical considerations as service quality. While Coke's tenure as official cola provider was plagued by inferior service, Pepsi has shown greater attentiveness to HDS' needs, Allegretto said...