This is because a racial quota system is in disagreement with liberal free-market principles. Whatever smoke and mirrors one may empoly, the current admission AA practice is a version of quota, and it undermines free choice, competition, and fair play.

So tell me again why Asian students today should pay the price for discrimination long ago against black people?

I interpret AA as principally reflecting a desire by elite schools to keep the numbers of Asian students down, just as they tried to keep the numbers of Jewish students down in the last century.

As Jared Taylor has written ( http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/taboos/jt_diver.html ), if there really were substantial advantages in “glorious-rainbow”-style diversity, people would eventually catch on and seek it out, instead of having it imposed upon them, shoved down their throats.

In fact, all you actually get in this real world regarding diversity are contradictions. First, if there’s to be benefit in diversity, there must be systematic differences among the categories of people called “white,” “Asian,” “black,” etc. (After all, the trivial difference of skin color can’t yield benefits.) So, e.g., black students must be heard from. But aren’t the people pushing hardest for diversity pretty much the same ones who insist that there’s no such thing as race, and everyone is fundamentally the same? (Yes!)

Second, the general experience on “diverse” campuses is not of increased understanding and appreciation across racial lines but of increased hostility and self-segregation. As in the larger society, race relations are actually deteriorating. (There’s really nothing surprising about this — humans are tribal, worldwide and throughout history, and “diverse” societies are usually fractious, often lethally so.)

Wolfman takes a wave at describing diversity’s specific benefit for white college students with his assertion that those immersed in diversity wind up capable of “weaving multiple perspectives and shades of nuance.” But this is easily recognizable as mere orotund, fatuous blather.

Finally, a sufficient argument **against** affirmative action — never mind its disadvantages for minorities — is that it’s bad for whites (in its unfairness) and white institutions (for the deterioration in their standards that inevitably results). And if non-whites want to benefit from the civilization that white people have created, then it’s up to the non-whites to assimilate and perform and then let the chips fall where they may, not to demand re-engineering of the societies and institutions they specifically sought out.

(Of course, black Americans who are descendants of slaves can’t be said to have sought out Western societies. But would they really want to migrate to Africa? A book pertinent to that question is Keith Richburg’s _Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa_.)