This is an over simplification of a complex issue. Historically, minorities have been underrepresented and of course that needs to be addressed. Ignorance, hatred, institutional racism, and bigotry are the problems. But labeling this “whiteness” is counter productive and needlessly divisive.
Surprisingly, compared to the state population, caucasians are actually underrepresented in both the CSU and the UC systems.

Dr. Victor Davis Hansen is a respected Stanford historian and here is a clip from his longer reply. Of note he adds UC Davis in (and our water tower).

https://youtube.com/shorts/OvGaF9tDM2A?si=ys639E795_yaRxUc

Which is why we have had affirmative action since the 1960s, race-based scholarships, outreach, Head Start, extra funding, EOP, trillions of dollars spent on the War on Poverty, etc. BTW, recently some schools are further lowering standards, homework, and grading criteria.

The present-day problem appears to be a lowered educational proficiency nationwide, including many urban schools having 25% or less of students meeting basic proficiency standards. Many schools with multi-million-dollar budgets have zero percent proficiency. Yet we have a Califirnia Asian American student with a 4.4 GPA, top SAT scores, a Google job offer, who is rejected by twenty top universities including multiple UCs.

Here is the full VDH nine-minute reply with over 200,000 views. Some comments insightful, Dr. Wood gets a lot of heat.

https://youtu.be/2aW1BV-LuQw?si=FmosPo8hpKxNJVBa

Neat trick. Group “values” you don’t like and put a label on it explicitly tying those values to a racial group. Then you can stigmatize that group with the prepositioned defense that you were just talking about a bucket of “values”, not the group. A supplementary benefit of this approach is you can throw in things you don’t like like capitalism, punctuality, thinness, seemingly at random so no one really knows what you are talking about, and if they figure it out you can change the values so you remain a step ahead.

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The Hornets are our top local rival. VDH including our water tower and plug was icing on the cake.

The sad irony is that some folks like Dr. Wood are lowering standards, which is counter productive.

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