I think everyone can agree with the first part that liars shouldn't be rewarded but if they're honest some of the conservatives could secretly sympathize with someone lying about who they are to get a job or college application approval because what it means is that if they hadn't they wouldn't have gotten that job because they would have been discriminated against for being not being one of the preferred groups and just being plain straight white and not elite.
I have very little sympathy for these whinners who blame minority groups for their mediocracy.
According to this site, 55% of college students are white. Over half. That means that, on average, these whinners were not in the top half of the applicants to the college. They were probably farther down the list, since there were doubtlessly many qualified minority candidates who were academically better than them, too.
So what you end up with is someone around the bottom third of the applicant pool who is complaining that they were better qualified than a minority candidate in the bottom third who was admitted.
But then you get into the question of what "better qualified" means. Is someone who had the same grade point average and SAT score from a violent slum school less qualified than a person from a well-run, well-funded (or perhaps private) school? Is the first person in a family to go to college less qualified than a person from a family where everyone went to college? Is the kid who fought tooth-and-nail to make it into college less qualified than a kid who gave only enough to get mediocre grades?
So if a college gives points to someone who overcame obstacles to get into college more points than someone who didn't have as many, is that racist? If a college wants to have a diverse student body, so their students can experience working with those different than themselves, and choose a diverse student over a mediocre student, is that racist? Or is that simply saying that grades and SAT scores are not the only reason a college must choose a student?
Look at these labor statistics from 2020. Which categories are whites severely under-represented compared to Asians, Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans? Point out where they are racially disadvantaged. Then also point out where they are not.
Yes, some "less-qualified" students have been accepted to universities over mediocre white students because of race. But the top students are still accepted over less-qualified students regardless of race. And whites are still among the majority of students accepted.
So those who are passed over because they are white, I have only one piece of advice: become better, so that you are no longer in the bottom half of all candidates. Then you will find it much easier to be accepted, regardless of your race.
