ProPublica: It’s wrong to help struggling students if they’re white

The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white. “I am especially disappointed that the University encourages these and other discriminatory programs,” she wrote in the Stanford Review. “We need to allow each person to define his or her own achievements instead of assuming competence or incompetence based on race.”

As an undergraduate studying calculus at Stanford University in the mid-1990s, Candice Jackson “gravitated” toward a section of the class that provided students with extra help on challenging problems, she wrote in a student publication. Then she learned that the section was reserved for minority students.

1. The ProPublica hit piece targeting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Candice Jackson, favorite targets of the educracy that funds liberal power, is not journalism. No more than the usual Gawker offerings were. It’s a snide blog post dressed up in journalistic language.
2. Never mind that this was decades ago, what is there about Jackson’s comments to disagree with?

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