The Dark Side of Diversity at Harvard

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Kenny Xu joins Peter and Eric on The Drill Down to talk about the dark side of “diversity and inclusion” efforts in America’s schools and universities. It’s a subject he knows very well as an Asian American who is president of a nonprofit group called “Color Us United.” Kenny, 25, is also the author of the fascinating book, An Inconvenient Minority: The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence, which takes a deep dive into that dark side at what was once America’s premier university. In the case of Harvard, it shows up in a hazy admissions metric that no one at the university can really explain known as the “personality score.”

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.8	Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Biden's.
0:12.4	Investigations that matter.
0:14.4	If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Oism?
0:19.0	I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't fighting. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down where we relentlessly exposed cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C. My co-hosts as always is Eric Eggers. Eric's, you're doing well. I mean, look at me, Peter. I'm excellent. Good.
0:55.5	20, 3 is after a great start. And we have a special guest.
0:57.0	We have a special guest today.
0:58.5	Kenny Shue is going to be joining us.
1:00.6	He is an author.
1:01.7	He's the head of a nonprofit.
1:03.4	I took particular delight when I learned this fact because people who don't know,
1:08.2	Eric actually does help a lot of students with SAT prep. He has a business,
1:16.1	as it were, that does that. It does quite good. But our guest today actually scored basically
1:20.8	a thousand points higher than you on the SAT. So I was thrilled to hear that. Yeah, I know you were.
1:25.8	And trust me, your message is being sent loud and clear.
1:29.1	You got a guy that's went to, you know, has applied to the Ivy League schools.
1:32.4	Another author has booked it a lot better than mine and his SAT scores, you know, essentially almost double.
1:37.4	So I get it.
1:38.0	Kenny, it's great to see you.
1:39.1	Why don't just take my office next time, okay?
1:40.9	Well, you know, I didn't go to Oxford, though. Well, Kenny Schu is our guest
1:46.5	here. I've known Kenny for a while. He is the president of colorists United, which is an organization
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