If you’ve given up cable TV opinion shows for the holidays, then you may have missed an extraordinary exchange between Tucker Carlson, an anti-affirmative action conservative cable TV host, and an Asian American college trustee who supports affirmative action.
Jay Chen is a trustee of Mt. San Antonio College in the Los Angeles Area, and is one of the outspoken Asian American community members supporting affirmative action.
He was fine, but the conversation began with a false conclusion from host Carlson, who continued to perpetuate a mistruth.
That mistruth is that Asian Americans must score higher on SAT scores than Whites at Harvard and is thus a discriminatory admissions tool.
You may have thought the U.S. Supreme Court decision last June on Fisher v. Texas ended the dispute over affirmative action, but like all diversity and civil rights issues, it’s a perpetual battle against the pendulum swing.
Conservatives who have made a living fighting affirmative action think they’ve learned from the Fisher case, and are essentially relitigating the case, this time with an emphasis on Asian American “victims.”
The claim is that Harvard has been discriminating against Asian Americans, with SAT scores being the cornerstone of the argument.
