by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

As I recently explained, American universities are far more committed to creating an incompetent society consisting of a Tower of Babel than they are to creating well educated citizens that the society needs.  For decades American universities have discriminated against white applicants of merit in favor of less capable “preferred minorities.  This is called “white privilege.”

To accommodate the influx of unqualified preferred minorities, the universities that had high standards had to lower them, so the final product is less capable than prior to the “affirmative action” era.  This is not to say that all racially-favored applicants are stupid. It is to say that the emphasis on skin color as the basis of admission resulted in many graduates being below the previous standard.