? Okay, maybe it’s futile even to attempt to make logical sense out of a Sam_Stone rant, but here’s another chunk of straight-up incoherence that’s not providing any clue even to what Sam thought he meant by it.
“Asians under-represented in the Ivy League”? By what metric? Certainly not in terms of the representation of Asian-Americans in the US population.
All Americans of Asian descent, including East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian ethnicities, make up something like 6% of the total US population. Asian-American Ivy League college students, on the other hand, constitute somewhere between 20%-25% of the Ivy League student body.
In other words, the statistical facts are that Asian-American college students, due to their high average levels of academic achievement, are massively overrepresented in Ivy League institutions. Where on earth did Sam_Stone get his claim that they’re “under-represented”?
You know, it really is depressing watching the level of conservative political discourse deteriorate like this. Maybe I’ve just got the nostalgia, but it seems to me that a decade or so ago it was much more common to find conservatives at least trying to make honest and rational arguments for their ideology. A lot of them still seemed to value knowing the facts and reasoning coherently.
Nowadays, more and more, all they’ve got is resentment politics and flat-out delusions about matters of verifiable fact. This can’t be just the effect of individual posters getting old and confused, because that’s happening to all of us at the same rate no matter where we are on the political spectrum. This has to represent severe degradation in the conservative media sources that they’re taking their arguments from.
Conservative media no longer need to persuade their target audiences by making persuasive fact-based arguments: they can get just as much conservative allegiance and support by throwing together a half-assed hodgepodge of lies, misinterpretations, anger and bullshit. They don’t even have to proofread the stuff for obvious glaring misstatements any more: just leave the obvious glaring misstatements in, and conservative audiences won’t even notice them, because the only message they’re paying attention to is basically just “LIBERALS BAD”.