Given that something like 6-7 of the 8 Ivy League presidents are Jewish (according to their wikipedia pages), and how underrepresented non-Jewish whites are at the Ivies - why not? Or, let me ask another way: how much fewer non-Jewish whites would the Ivies have to have, before you would consider them disadvantaged (for Ivy attendance)? They are 33% now, so.. maybe when they're just 20%, one in five? Or 10%? Would that be low enough?
I don't consider white Americans disadvantaged for reasons that are not empirical. I similarly consider black Americans and Native Americans (and to a lesser extent Hispanic Americans) disadvantaged for reasons that are not empirical.
In my perfect world there would be no affirmative action. All this stuff would be race and gender blind. But if we have to have affirmative action, we should only consider ethnicity when it helps the applicant.
Given that something like 6-7 of the 8 Ivy League presidents are Jewish (according to their wikipedia pages), and how underrepresented non-Jewish whites are at the Ivies - why not? Or, let me ask another way: how much fewer non-Jewish whites would the Ivies have to have, before you would consider them disadvantaged (for Ivy attendance)? They are 33% now, so.. maybe when they're just 20%, one in five? Or 10%? Would that be low enough?