According to the preferentialists and their friends who successfully opposed Ward Connerly’s Racial Privacy Initiative in California last year, eliminating access to racial data would lead inexorably to the death of the state as we know it. How can we monitor discrimination, they asked, if we can’t collect and analyze racial data?
That was a good, and telling, question. But why, then, we are now entitled to ask, do so many of those same folks become apoplectically paranoid about the prospect of data revealing the nature and extent of racial preference on campuses becoming public?
Since the Civil Rights Commission, which is supposed to do nothing if not monitor racial discrimination, won’t, the Center for Equal Opportunity has drafted legislation that would require the release of the very sort of data that opponents of the RPI had argued was essential to the workings of democracy.
Now listen. That heavy pall of silence you hear is the sound of all the anti-RPI preferentialists who support the CEO legislation.
Oh, but if we revealed the data we’d have to reveal all the lies that the data has hidden.
Or should I say that the hidden data would have revealed.
U-Michigan itself has STILL NOT released the data its experts testified under oath to argue that “diversity has educational benefits”, something that Sandra Day O’Connor bought into hook, line, and sinker. What good is science or statistics without others being able to cross-check the data, verify reliability, and run different tests on the numbers?
The irony here is that CEO has coopted the left’s position on RPI in a brilliant counter-ploy that would expose the whole house of cards. I fully support CEO’s actions and applaud all the work they’ve done since long before this recent flair up of activity.
CEO did an excellent job conveying the importance of the lies I partially exposed in the Wall St. Journal (but, which admittedly, other scientists saw the methodological bunk long before I did without the benefit of contradictory admissions in old memos by U-M researchers); CEO did an excellent job reporting on the weakenesses years ago; and they’re doing an excellent job with this legislation.
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