You gotta love it when someone inadvertently shoots themselves in the foot. As I reported recently, a single tweet by race-baiting academic, Ibrahim X. Kendi, one of the leading voice of so-called “Critical Race Theory”, demolished one of the key platforms of his ludicrous, hateful ideology.
Kendi tweeted the news that a survey had found that more than one-third of white students lied about their race on college applications, to maximise their chance of acceptance. Nearly all who claimed to be anything but white were successful.
As many Twitter users took delight in pointing out, this demolished the entire notion of “white privilege”: if being white was an inherent advantage, why would white students be so disadvantaged by their race that they had to lie about it?
Kendi quickly deleted the tweet.
A group of Aboriginal activists might want to similarly reassess their complaints.
Two land councils representing more than 40,000 Aboriginal people have lodged a formal complaint with the Independent Commission Against Corruption over the number of staff and students at the University of Sydney who self-identify as Indigenous.
The complaint, signed by Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council chief executive Brendan Moyle and backed by Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council chief executive Nathan Moran, says the university is failing to ensure that those who receive benefits for Aboriginal people are in fact Indigenous […]
“These resources – jobs, scholarships for Indigenous people – are funded by the public.”
So, wait — it’s more lucrative for academics and students to be Aboriginal than it is to be white?
So much for that “white privilege”, then.
It’s not just an isolated problem as USyd, either.
Mr Moran said he met with the University of Sydney’s new vice-chancellor, Mark Scott, in October “and I personally told him: you have a problem. But he’s from the Department of Education so he knows the whole state government, every university … has the same problem.
It turns out that there’s a whole raft of “Aboriginal privilege” at the nation’s universities.
Benefits provided by the University of Sydney include “employment, scholarships, support targeted exclusively to Aboriginal people; the opportunity to apply for a Gadigal early conditional offer of enrolment; lower minimum ATAR requirements; access to an academic skills program before commencing university; ongoing academic and personal support while studying for a degree” and participation in “culturally significant events.”
The Australian
Remember when Aboriginal groups vilified and sued Andrew Bolt for arguing that white people were falsely claiming to be Aboriginal, because it was so potentially lucrative?
Meanwhile, another of the nation’s highly-advantaged cohort of Whingerati might also want to rethink her arguments.
Sam Mostyn is a wealthy business executive, yet all she seems to do is whine about how hard-done-by rich, university-educated women like her really are.
Ms Mostyn said that for every 100 women enrolled at university there were only 72 men, and yet women continued to earn less than men.
“Women radically outnumber men in the Australian bachelors degree-qualified population.”
The Australian
Which is a funny way of saying that men are clearly discriminated against in our universities. Given what we also see about the advantages conferred on Aboriginal people in academic, perhaps we need to start running special programs to accelerate white boys into universities?
Let’s see how that flies with the whingerati.
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