Once again, naked discrimination by liberals against Asians and Indians

I have written frequently (here, for example) about the prejudice against Asians one finds in liberal and Progressive circles in Silicon Valley. For more evidence of this prejudice, this time exhibited not by Valley liberals, but by some of the eminences of Democratic politics in New York City, see the recent blog post of Francis Menton, the Manhattan Contrarian.

Discussing an article in the New York Times written by Elizabeth Harris entitled "Lack of Diversity Persists in Admissions to Elite City Schools," the Contrarian writes:

[What was] the racial breakdown of those admitted [to New York's elite technical high schools]? According to Harris, of the 5,103, 5% were black, 7% were Hispanic, 28% were white, and 52% were Asian. ... Harris's summary of the reaction to the test results:
In the public school system in recent years, just shy of 30 percent of students have been black and about 40 percent have been Hispanic, and there is widespread agreement that the low numbers of these students in specialized schools is a problem.

I love that unspecific "there is widespread agreement." Has anybody asked any of the Asians? Then there are the reactions of Mayor Bill de Blasio and his Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose son is a senior at Brooklyn Technical High School, the largest specialized school, said the schools should more closely resemble the population of the city. In a statement on Thursday, the city’s schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, said, “It’s critical that our city’s specialized high schools reflect the diversity of our city.”

Sounds to me like they are proposing naked discrimination against the Asians. Hey Asians, how many of you know that you have now been designated as people against whom naked discrimination by the state is to be permitted and encouraged? Your dad may speak broken English and drive a cab 12 hours a day, but already you have been deemed to have too much "privilege" and you must be knocked back by having the state impose quotas on you.

The use of "naked discrimination" is all too familiar to those of us out here in the Valley. As I have written elsewhere, liberals like Jesse Jackson have tried to use precisely this type of naked racial discrimination and coercion to strong-arm Silicon Valley companies like Google, Yahoo!, and LinkedIn and even the University of California into "working to increase" the numbers of black and Hispanic employees and students:

White and Asian employees of high-tech companies need to ask themselves: What is my company going to do to "work" towards greater diversity? For example, if "Asians" are overrepresented now, then, presumably, one of the areas that high-tech companies will want to "work on" is bringing the percentage of those Asian employees down so that it is in line with the percentage of Asians in the general population. Does this mean that high-tech companies will introduce racial criteria and quotas into the hiring process, for example, adding points if a candidate is black or Hispanic, and subtracting points if the candidate is Asian? Such a practice is, of course, identical to the racial preferences that California Democrats recently tried to introduce into the admissions policy of the University of California through constitutional amendment SCA-5.

In other words, the measures that would be employed by New York Democratic Mayor DeBlasio and Chancellor Fariña to make New York's technical high schools "more closely resemble the population of the city" are exactly the same kind of measures that would be employed by those California Democrats who want racial quotas established in high-tech companies and who back California constitutional amendment SCA-5, namely naked racial discrimination in favor of blacks and Hispanics and against Asians and Indians.

So, thanks for the post, Contrarian. Apparently, naked racial prejudice against high-achieving Asians and Indians is not limited to West Coast Lefties, but is a nationwide phenomenon endemic to the Democratic Party.