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The Affirmative Action Hoax: Diversity, the Importance of Character And Other Lies

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Steven Farron sets out to comprehensively document how affirmative action has changed and distorted our society from college admission, college grading, job applications, and job performance. His style is very readable and not at all pedantic. I started the book and couldn't put it down until it was finished. The subject is divided into various chapters, each relating to another form of affirmative action as applied by our federal and academic bureaucracies. The result is a thorough and informative recount of how affirmative action has changed the structure of our society, for good or evil. Farron is obviously on the side of less affirmative action but he gives his reasons for this stance and relates the price we all pay for our progressive social policies.
Mr. Farron's style is straight forward and easy to comprehend. Although he has done significant research into the numbers related to affirmative action the reader never gets inundated with cold facts.
His arguments are succinct and to the point, never verbose and obscure. I thoroughly enjoyed the book
And will use it as a road map as I navigate our new society.

It is sad to read how leaders of American universities have consistantly lied over the years - lied, covered up, punished those who dissented, and finally led an assault on free speech. They pretended that there were no major differences between Blacks in Whites in admissions to unis. For years they hid just how great is the gap between Blacks and whites in scores on SAT and ACT and grad & profession exams, tests that regularly predict how well a student will do in academia. Because Blacks were ill equipped to partake in elite uni classes, profs were pressured to pass them, eventually lowering standards for all. Farron shows that all the talk of considering qualities other than race in admissions is a scam; uni administrators want quotas, even if they cannot call them such. Consequently, children of wealthy Blacks and Hispanics recieve many scholarships, summer study programs, tutors, other help, from high school on through retirement. Poor whites pay the price by being denied basic equal opportunity. Unlike most critics, Farron sees Asians as benificiaries of affirmative action, espeically in Small Business Adm. grants.

I disagree with him when he asserts that John Kennedy basically believed in the quotaized approach. I think that in the early 1960s Kennedy and King simply wanted equal opportunity for all. They assumed that equal opportunity would bring about equal results. Only when testing showed that many Blacks would be unable to make the grade, or get the job or promotion, was there a major demand for discrimination against white males, i.e. affirmative action. Surely, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would never have been passed if it were meant to create the institutionalized racism we have today under the Orwellian phrases "equal opportunity" and "affirmative action."

Farron also fails to note that the 1964 law also forbid religious discrimination, and if implemented in the same manner as it now applies to race, ethnos, and sex, Jews would be limited to 2% of posts in medicine, law, the media etc. (See my "White Male Privilege" in J. of Libertarian Studies)

Still, Farron has written a courageous book that exposes the lies of the academedia complex, which is alligned with the power of the government and corporate elite. His book includes many useful quotes, lengthy appendices, and he writes clearly. One hopes it will be read widely.
----------Hugh Murray

The Affirmative Action Hoax: Diversity, The Importance Of Character And Other Lies by academician Steven Farron is an unapologetic, no-holds barred indictment of affirmative action especially in university admission, and also the less widely publicized practices of affirmative grading and graduation. Vehement in its denouncements, The Affirmative Action Hoax is unafraid to label defenses of affirmative action as "shameless frauds" and "blatant lies"; it declares, in unambiguous terms, that affirmative action is a blatant form of discrimination against white people and Asian people, and that if racial discrimination must be enacted then by far the most efficient and fair means is through quotas. Debunking the non-academic admissions criteria of "diversity", "importance of character", etc. often used to defend anti-white affirmative action by revealing that the same concepts were first introduced to discriminate in favor of white students who could not compete with the children of Jewish immigrants, The Affirmative Action Hoax is sharp-tongued yet serious minded in its call to reexamine a facet of university admissions policies all too easily taken for granted.

Professor Farron's book is packed with real-life examples and official policies of how 'Affirmative Action'- or as it is called, cloaked in it's new moniker, 'Diversity'- has had discriminatory effects on people like me who happen not to be 'a person of color'. His clear descriptive quote on Diversity and its subsequent effect is so full of self evident truth that the quote alone is worth buying AND reading the whole book:

"Diversity is the most insidious and pernicious of all defenses of discrimination. The other justifications assume that discrimination is a necessary evil, a temporary expedient that is needed to produce a society in which race and ethnicity are irrelevant. Diversity assumes that discrimination is an unqualified good and that it should be perpetual."

I recommend this book to all, even 'people of color'- whatever that may mean!

A book of this quality and undoubted importance to society should be on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. Its author should be appearing on Meet the Press. Yet, I only heard of it through internet resources. The mainstream media's censorship of truth that doesn't portray women and minorities as victim is monolithic and to society's great detriment. Read this book.

Somewhere in Prof. Farina's book is a line running something like, "Most Americans know what affirmative action is, and most are against it. But very few understand how serious and deep-seated this problem is."

I am privileged to have read his monographs on institutionalized prejudice throughout the world, and on 20th century holocausts. I therefore expected the best from this book, but it turned out to far exceed my expectations.

As I do, Farron considers interracial animosity the world's greatest problem.

I have read quite a bit about the negative aspects of affirmative action policy, but this book goes into far more detail, and is far more convincing about the conspiracy of deceit, false innuendo, and misinformation put out by legislators, the media, and the universities.

I disagree with Prof. Farron as to the innate nature of the inferior IQs of nonwhite populations, and will send a 79-page word processor text file of my own theoretical and empirical reasons for doing so. I blame the schools, especially the first three years,and will send my unpublished manuscript as a free email attachment to anyone requestion one from me by email.

Farron is right that the only real way to achieve racial balance in schools and the work force would be with an outright quota system, even though this is impossible politically and constitutionally.

However, affirmative action is a horrible blight on a country, like ours, that is trying to sell "truth, justice, and the American" way to a world that is decreasingly impressed by our technological and manufacturing prowess.

This book is a must for anyone, of any race or political persuasion, who truly believes our grandchildren should be judged by the content of their characters rather than by the color of their skin.

This excelent book should be in the hands of every white male over the age of about twelve. It's the only way they are going to know how the cards are stacked against them. Perfect SAT score? Forget it. GPA better than 4? Forget it. Bunch of AP classes? Good score on the LSAT and MCAT? Forget it. Nothing is more mportant than whether you are black, brown, or whatever, even if you just got off the boat and could not possibly have any history of discrimination in this country. If you add women to the list, everyone except white males is deserving of some special treatment.

And they lie about it. Oh, everyone has an equal chance regardless of color. Bull. When the facts get out, as Farron discusses at great length in his book, merit is no longer the main criteron. It's color and cronyism.

Good luck to all you white males who think hard work will get you into a good school or job.

But first read Farron's book.

"The Affirmative Action Hoax" opened my eyes to important aspects of affirmative action with almost every page. This book is not only extremely informative but also riveting. Once you start, it's difficult to put down. Mr. Farron takes apart famous books that try to defend affirmative action and systematically exposes them as hypocritical propaganda. Thanks to this monumental work, the only excuse for supporting institutional racial discrimination is willful ignorance.

The second best book on Affirmative Action is "Collision Course" by Hugh Davis Graham.

This book is not well categorized under "search books by subject." Here are subjects used in other books about Affirmative Action:

Affirmative action programs
Affirmative action programs in education
Affirmative action programs - Law and legislation - United States
Affirmative action programs - United States

I read the first edition of Dr Farron's book. I am very familiar with Dr Farron's thought, having read all three of his previos monographs published by the Free Market Foundation of South Africa. Although I don't share his opinion about the genetically superior constitution of some ethnic groups, I note that free market advocates of Jewish, Indian, Malaysian, African-Amercican and European writers are all devoted both to Prof Farron's free market, anti-Affirmative Action, and libertarian ideals as well as to the idea of increassing the economic productivity of all minority groups through education...One may disagree with some of these conclusions, but not with Dr. Farron's facts. He is a genius and everything he writes should be carefully read and duly considered, especially in this modern complicated world we inhabit. Please read this book!