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你能想象 在今时今日 Can you imagine, in this day and age,

有一所教育机构歧视某一少数族裔吗？ an educational institution discriminating against a racial minority?

你能想象这会引起多大愤慨？ Can you imagine what the outcry would be?

「你是说 你在阻止这些合格学生进入你的大学 “You mean, you’re preventing these qualified students from attending your college

原因是他们的肤色？」 because of the color of their skin?!”

原因是他们的肤色？」 because of the color of their skin?!”

好吧 你无须想象 Well, you don’t have to imagine it.

这正在发生 It’s happening.

而它就是美国最富盛名的大学——我的母校 哈佛 And at arguably the most prestigious college in America—my alma mater, Harvard.

这一少数族裔不同以往是黑人或犹太人 The ethnic minority isn’t blacks or Jews, as it was in years past.

这次的目标是亚裔美国人 The target this time is Asian Americans.

它同样是错误的 And it’s just as wrong.

花费了数百万美元诉讼费 检查了数百万份记录 After millions of dollars in legal fees, millions of records examined,

加上数百小时的口供与证词 and hundreds of hours of depositions and testimony,

哈佛一度刻意掩盖的录取政策得以暴露无遗 Harvard’s once purposely opaque admissions policies have been laid bare.

它可不是什么好景象 It’s not a pretty picture.

以下是我们现在知道的： Here’s what we now know:

哈佛招生办主要从三个方面评估学生申请者： Harvard Admissions rates student applicants in three main ways:

1）学业表现； 1) Academic performance;

2）课外成就； 2) Extra-curricular achievements;

3）「个人品质」 3) “Personal qualities.”

到此而言 这没什么问题 如果这些标准能公平应用的话 That’s fine, as far as it goes, if the criteria were applied fairly.

但它们并不 But they’re not.

亚裔美国人申请者一直在前两个标准上 Asian American applicants consistently score higher in the first two criteria

学业和课外活动 它们都可以客观评定 academics and extra-curricular activities, which can be objectively assessed

领先于白人学生 拉丁裔和非裔美国人 than white students, Latinos and African Americans.

那么哈佛是怎么调整亚裔美国人名额的呢？ So how does Harvard justify its Asian American quota?

借助于第三项——「个人品质」 With the help of category three—“personal qualities,”

其中包括模糊又极为主观的因素 which include vague and largely subjective factors

例如「好感度」 「成熟度」 「诚信」与「激情」 like “likability,” “maturity,” “integrity,” and “effervescence.”

根据哈佛自己的内部报告 According to Harvard’s own internal reports,

亚裔美国人申请者在个人品质评定表上 Asian American applicants are routinely and systematically marked

一再且系统性地被打低得多的分数 much lower on this personality scale by Harvard admissions officers

而哈佛的招生人员几乎从来没有会见或面试过这些申请者 who almost never meet or interview applicants.

令人意外的是： But here’s the kicker:

招生人员给亚裔学生的个人品质评分 the personality ratings given to Asian students by admissions officers

与哈佛校友面试官所给的个人品质评分大相径庭 are vastly different than the personality ratings Harvard gets from its own alumni interviewers,

后者真正亲自会见过申请者 who actually meet the applicants in person.

校友面试官给亚裔申请者的评分和白人申请者一样高 Alumni interviewers score Asian applicants as high as whites.

换而言之 In other words,

哈佛人为篡改亚裔在「个人品质」的评分以得到它想要的结果 Harvard artificially and fraudulently downgrades Asians on “personality” to get the results it wants.

哈佛想要的就是抑制亚裔美国人的录取人数 And what Harvard wants is to suppress the number of Asian Americans admitted.

根据哈佛被迫交出的数据 Based on the data that Harvard was forced to turn over,

杜克大学经济学家彼得·阿西迪亚科诺得出 economist Peter Arcidiacono of Duke University concluded

在相同的考试成绩 that with the same application profile in terms of test scores,

课外活动和个人品质应用规范下 extracurricular activities and personality factors,

亚裔美国男性申请者只有 25% 的录取机会 an Asian American male applicant would only have a 25% chance of admission-

对比白人的 32% 西裔的 77% 和黑人的 95% —versus 32% if white, 77% if Hispanic, and 95% if black.

对比白人的 32% 西裔的 77% 和黑人的 95% —versus 32% if white, 77% if Hispanic, and 95% if black.

这一切的实际后果是什么？ What’s the real-life result of all this?

在 2013 年 亚裔美国人占入学新生的 19% In 2013, Asian Americans made up 19% of the incoming freshmen class.

根据哈佛自己的院校研究办公室 According to Harvard’s own Office of Institutional Research,

如果个人品质因素没被操纵 这一比例会是 43% if the personality factors had not been rigged, that percentage would have been 43%.

《1964 年民权法案》第六章 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

确保「美国民众 guarantees that “No person in the United States

不以种族、肤色或原国籍为由 shall, on the ground of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in,

而在联邦财政援助的项目或活动中被排除参与 or be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination

被拒绝享受好处或受到歧视」 under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

每年 哈佛从联邦政府那取得数亿美元 Each year, Harvard takes hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government.

在格鲁特诉布林格案中 In Grutter v. Bollinger,

最高法院支持了密西根大学法学院的积极平权政策 the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action policies,

认为种族可以作为「有利因素」促进多元化 deciding that race could be used as a "plus factor" to achieve diversity,

但不能成为配额制 but never as a quota.

然而 严格限制其将录取的亚裔美国人申请者百分比 Yet, by placing strict limits on the percentage of Asian American applicants it will admit,

哈佛实行的无疑就是种族配额制 racial quotas are exactly what Harvard is using.

有强烈配额制嫌疑的并非只有哈佛 One strongly suspects this quota system isn't limited to Harvard.

在过去十年 In the last ten years,

亚裔美国人学生人数在常春藤联盟中一直限制在 18-22% Asian American students have been limited to an 18-22% presence across the Ivy League.

又或者这只是一个巧合 Or maybe that’s just a coincidence.

2003 年格鲁特诉布林格案的多数判决意见中 Writing for the majority in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003,

法官桑德拉·戴·奥康纳写到 Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote

法院「期待 25 年后 that the Court “expects that 25 years from now,

用种族优先促进今天所承认的利益将不再是必要的」 the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.”

还剩不到十年 With less than a decade to go,

常春藤联盟没有任何放弃种族优先的迹象 the Ivy League shows no indication that it's giving up on those racial preferences.

相反 这些大学变本加厉 Instead, these colleges have doubled down.

客观的录取标准因违法的种族平衡目标的推进 Objective standards regarding admissions continue to be increasingly disfavored

变得越来越不受欢迎 as the illegal goal of racial balancing is advanced.

左派辩解种族平衡是为了达成「种族多元化」 This racial balancing is justified by the left’s desire to achieve “racial diversity”

固执地只从种族的角度看待每个人 —its insistence on seeing every person only through the prism of race,

就像我们身上最重要的东西就是我们的肤色 as if the most important thing any of us has to offer is the color of our skin.

不久以前 这叫做「种族主义」 Not long ago, that was called “racism.”

它现在依然叫做种族主义 It’s still called racism.

它必须被彻底终止 It needs to end, once and for all—

为了还亚裔美国人学生公道 为了哈佛自己的诚信 for the sake of deserving Asian American students, for the sake of Harvard's own integrity,

还为了美国的原则 即规则必须对所有人都一样 and for the sake of the American principle that the rules must be the same for everyone.

最高法院首席大法官约翰·罗伯特说得好 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts said it best:

「停止基于种族的歧视的办法是停止基于种族的歧视」 “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

这就是我们现在要做的 It’s time we did just that.

我是亚裔美国人法律基金会的李成（音译） 为 PragerU 制作 I’m Lee Cheng, of the Asian American Legal Foundation, for Prager University.