Steven Farron - The Affirmative Action Hoax: Diversity, the Importance of Character, and Other Lies

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Copyright 2014 by New Century Foundation

First edition published in 2005 by Seven Locks Press, initial copyright 2005 by Steven Farron

This Kindle edition is based on the First New Century Books Edition, Copyright 2010 by New Century Foundation.

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This text is current as of June 9, 2014 and includes new corrections as well as those from the Affirmative Action Hoax website [web link] dated February 2011.

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Steven Farron received BA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. Until 2001, he was a professor of Classics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His specialty was ancient Greek and Latin epic poetry, on which he published over 20 articles and a book.

He resigned his academic position in order to devote his time to the study of the catastrophic results of trying to solve the perceived problem of the unequal success of ethnic, racial, and social groups: American affirmative action, the Holocaust, Armenian genocide, slaughter of the kulaks in the Soviet Union, and persecution of Chinese in Southeast Asia and of Indians in East Africa.

For years, Helen Savva, the reference librarian at the United States Government Public Affairs Office in Pretoria, South Africa, and Suzette Jansen van Rensberg of the University of the Witwatersrand Interlibrary Loans Office fulfilled my requests for articles and books with alacrity and efficiency.

It is also a pleasure for me to express my gratitude to my friend Robert Terdiman, who sent me many of the articles from the New York Times from which I quote; to my friend Eugene Valberg and my ex-students Ayal Rosenberg and John Wiblin, who offered helpful comments on some of the content of this book; and to Louis Andrews, who offered valuable observations and encouragement.

Last, but certainly not least, I thank my wife Esther for her enthusiasm, encouragement, and, more practically, proofreading.

The re-issue of this book by the New Century Foundation offered me a chance to correct mistakes in the original edition, to reorganize it; and, most importantly, to add relevant information that became available after its original publication in 2005. These additions have made this second edition one-seventh longer than the first edition. I will advise readers who have the first edition that large-scale changes begin in Section C of Chapter 2.

I will post further additions and corrections on my website [web link], which I will update every six months. That website also contains relevant documents that I have prepared, which can be downloaded.

Affirmative action is the standard euphemism for that type of discrimination meant to solve the perceived problem of the unequal success of ethnic and/or racial groups. In some instancesfor example, against Chinese in Southeast Asia, Indians in East Africa, and Jews in Germany between 1933 and 1939its extent and purpose have been clearly stated. But in the United States, whose ethos is individualistic and democratic and where the victims are the majority, its extent has been hidden and its purpose justified by liberal-seeming excuses. That is why attacks on affirmative action, including this one, concentrate on exposing its extraordinary magnitude and the fraudulence of its justifications.

This book also resembles most other criticisms of affirmative action in that it concentrates mainly, although not completely, on universities. Universities have been at the center of the American affirmative-action debate for two reasons: First, academic ability and achievement can be clearly defined, measured, and, consequently, compared. Second, discrimination at universities is more disturbing than elsewhere, since American universities pride themselves on being bastions of liberalism.

However, this book differs from most criticisms of affirmative action in six ways.

First, it names the premise that is the basis of the vicious anti-white discrimination that has pervaded American society since the 1960s.

Second, it demonstrates that the non-academic admissions criteriadiversity, importance of character, etc.that American universities use to defend anti-white affirmative action never had any purpose except to justify discrimination. No American university ever considered using any non-academic admissions criteria until the need arose to justify discrimination in favor of upper-class, private-school-educated Anglo-Saxons because they could not compete academically with the children of poor, non-English-speaking Jewish immigrants.

Third, it demonstrates that if racial discrimination cannot be eliminated, then by far the most efficient and fairest way to practice it is by explicit quotas.

Fourth, it avoids the gentlemanly self-restraint that inhibits most critics of affirmative action from labeling its defenses as the shameless frauds and deliberate lies that they are.

Fifth, it discusses not only affirmative action in university admissions but also the much more important but much less publicized practice of affirmative grading and graduation.

Sixth, it focuses attention on the damage that affirmative action does to its real victimswhitesinstead of claiming that it harms its black and Hispanic recipients or that Asians suffer worse discrimination than whites. It shows that, on the contrary, the black and Hispanic recipients of affirmative action obtain an undiluted advantage and that Asians also benefit from affirmative action.

M ost opponents of anti-white discrimination think that it is a blatant distortion of the non-racialism that was espoused by the two icons of twentieth century American liberalism, President John Kennedy and the Reverend Martin Luther King. As proof, they quote three statements that Kennedy and King made in the early 1960s. One is Section 301 of President Kennedys Executive Order Number 10,925 of March 8, 1961, which contained the first application by the federal government of the term