A petition launched by a freshman at Harvard University argues that campus leaders’ efforts to reform grade inflation at the Ivy League institution is racist.
The lobbying comes as a Harvard faculty consider capping the number of A grades they give out in each class. That proposal came after a report published last fall found that 60 percent of all undergraduate grades are now As.
The petition calls on Harvard to reject the proposed reforms, arguing they are “flawed” and “racially harmful in effect.”
“We center racism as a core concern, contending that although the policy is framed as neutral ‘differentiation,’ it functions as a system of ranking and sorting that mirrors and reinforces existing racial and socioeconomic hierarchies,” the petition states.
Yes, this guy is arguing that BiPOCs can't make it without grade inflation. In 1955, you could find Americans who believed that blacks lacked the intelligence to compete with whites. In the 19th century, even many abolitionists supported returning blacks to Africa (one that most had never seen) because they were thought unlikely to be able to compete on equal basis with whites.
Now, if this student wanted to argue that kids coming from poverty were going to have trouble competing, that might be an interesting argument, but not every BiPOC is coming from poverty and there are white Harvard students who also come from poverty and underprivileged backgrounds. (At least I hope so; there are plenty of J.D. Vances out there.) But no, this/student is playing the white supremacist tune, saying every black is inferior.
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