Libertarian: Zohran Just Played Colleges’ Game
“If you want to be mad at someone” over news that Uganda-born Zohran Mamdani checked the box for “black or African American” on his 2009 Columbia application, “be mad at colleges that incentivize applicants to be misleading about their skin pigmentation because false value is assigned to it,” argues Reason’s Robby Soave. Democrats who call this story “a giant nothingburger” likely probably feel differently if, say, South African Elon Musk checked the same box. Still, “I don’t really blame [Mamdani] for getting creative in order to (imperfectly) capture the nuances of a complicated ethnic background,” though it does show why assigning merit based on broad racial categorization “is fraught and inadvisable.” “There are two groups of people who obsess over race as a category: old-school racists, and college admissions departments.”
From the right: Dems’ Anti-City ‘Paucity’ Agenda
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