MIT has stated that it accepts all “underrepresented minority” applications who qualify for admission. I presume that means until they are no longer “underrepresented”.

Hell Kramer calls a couple of Black folks Nigger and says how fifty years ago he coulda stuck a fork up their ass and He’s NOT racist. By no means. he just lost it.

This is always where white liberalism shows its ugly head. I’m not even going to take the time to bother explaing race based scholarships b/c if folk aren’t aware of the history of this country then, well, what I say won’t matter.

To answer your question, when there are a fixed number of spots, discriminating in favor of one group is effectively equivalent to discriminating against other groups. So any school that sets a lower bar for admissions of blacks and hispanics is discriminating against whites and Asians.

This touches a debate we’ve had on another thread. I’m an alumnus of MIT who does interviewing for kids who apply there. The stats for the class of 2010 are:

• 1,474 students out of 11,373 applicants (13% admit rate)
• 52% men, 48% women
• 28% are Asian American
• 36% are Caucasian/White
• 22% are members of underrepresented minority groups (African-American, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Native American, and other Hispanic groups)
• 1% Other
• 6% No response
• 7% are international students

What schools do you think discriminate against Asian Americans?

In high school as well. My daughter’s public junior high in Manhattan sent parents an invitation to attend a recruiting event for “students of color” held by private high schools. They later sent a memo clarifying that “students of color” were limited to Black and Hispanic, not Asian.

Why would an Asian student group feel that way? They are explicitly discriminated against in college admissions.

IMO, throwing in spurious claims of racism weakens the case. It makes it look like there aren’t enough real ones to fill out a post.

they are ridiculing race-based scholarships, which is just a way of ridiculing the idea that minority races may deserve extra scholarships.

It is not ipso facto racist to oppose racial preferences (although of course someone could do so for racist reasons).

No doubt, but why would they? That isn’t the cultural message being sent by campus racial thinkers.

If you read the linked story, you’ll see that the “Caucasian scholarship” is a joke, specifically intended to ridicule the concept of race-based scholarships

Being a joke does not make this any less racist - in fact, it may be more so. As you say, they are ridiculing race-based scholarships, which is just a way of ridiculing the idea that minority races may deserve extra scholarships.

As for Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, I think it’s terrible that the Asian student group should be working against the Black student group. They should be working together to create more equality for all minority students.

I’m not sure that US campuses are any more or less racist than campuses in other countries. I have a feeling that European and Latin American Universities are racist in different ways. Do you have any speculation.

Maybe the NAACP also need to talk to the college republicans at Boston University, who feel the need to have a “Caucasian scholarship.”

If you read the linked story, you’ll see that the “Caucasian scholarship” is a joke, specifically intended to ridicule the concept of race-based scholarships. Whatever you think of that point of view, it hardly qualifies as “racist.”