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@TheHeretic7051 @drterrysimpson I am reading the publicly available findings: justice.gov/crt/media/1440… Don't see any reference to internal admissions files or scoring rubrics.

No. The DOJ Civil Rights Division’s May 2026 investigation did provide that proof: Yale’s internal admissions files, scoring rubrics, and emails explicitly factored race, producing the 29x interview boost for Asians with identical MCAT/GPA/etc. and the exact 518 vs. 523–524 median gap. It wasn’t “correlations” or SES proxies—it was documented racial discrimination (illegal post-SCOTUS). Nice try demanding evidence while ignoring the federal probe that found it.

One of the things I continue to find remarkable in this debate is how many people look at Black students scoring in the 95th percentile on the MCAT — often higher than the average matriculant at most American medical schools — and still conclude they were admitted “only because of race.” These are objectively elite academic performers. Many scored higher than applicants admitted to excellent medical schools across the country. And yet some people persist in speaking as though the mere existence of Black students at Yale is proof that standards collapsed and that unnamed “more deserving” Asian applicants were robbed. At that point, the conversation is no longer about MCAT scores. It is about an inability to imagine that highly accomplished Black students belong in elite institutions. What also fascinates me is how quickly social media pundits become absolute authorities on physician selection, while dismissing the judgment of admissions committees at institutions that have spent generations training world-class physicians and scientists. Medicine is harder — and more human — than sorting percentiles on a spreadsheet.

@SoloN0IR @JennE_Penny because people with "that same hue" are still negatively affected by the history of slavery + anti-Blackness in the US today? They are not immune to racial profiling by the police + judicial system. It's not like all the quasi-racist institutions give Nigerians a pass lol

@side_res @JennE_Penny The argument isn’t whether racism exist. It’s about fairness… Why should Nigerians get a huge advantage over Koreans simply because they share the same hue as descendants of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Redlining… That’s a valid question no one can answer, which is why AA ended

Every other May I have to see some Asian kid with a full ride to Brown cry and moan cuz he didn’t get into Harvard and now he has to make it black peoples problem. You guys are raising assholes and leaving us to deal with them.

@TheHeretic7051 @drterrysimpson When you say "That’s explicit racial preference" and then present purely correlations, you are making a causal claim and backing it up with associations. You need to provide some proof that *race* is being considered in admissions as opposed to any of the things I named.

Oh, brilliant pivot. Sure, it’s totally “income/family wealth/geographic vibes” that just happened to require explicit racial checkboxes, 29x interview odds for identical Asian applicants, and Black admits at Yale median MCAT 518 vs. 523–524 for everyone else (DOJ Civil Rights, 2026). SES explains some of the gap—race-based AA was the policy explicitly used until SCOTUS killed it, and enrollment cratered where banned. Correlation isn’t causation… except when the causation was literally named “race.” Nice try, though.

@chewtle29 @peachnamedgizmo The argument is specifically formulated this way by white supremacists to pit Asians and Black people against each other. In reality, most of the people who take the anti-AA position are white, and 80% of Asians support AA.

@peachnamedgizmo They can't compete against the white legacy admissions, and they feel threatened by the black candidates because despite socio-economic differences, the black candidates still got accepted. That shows that the black candidates work harder than they do. They're also bitter racists

Why are yall always specifically singling out black candidates against Asians? Yall got rid of affirmative action & still complaining

@TheHeretic7051 @drterrysimpson How are you so sure the casual variable is race? Why can't it be income/family wealth, geographic preferences, unique life circumstances that are highly desirable by med schools + correlated with Blackness, etc.?

More horseshit. No one claims Black students can’t be elite performers. Rare high-scoring Blacks (95th percentile MCAT ~518–520) exist—but at Yale (median ~523), Black admits’ median is 518 vs. 523–524 for White/Asian peers, with up to 29x higher interview odds for identical Asian applicants (DOJ Civil Rights findings, 2026). That’s explicit racial preference, not “inability to imagine Black excellence.” Admissions committees ignored color-blind merit (until SCOTUS); post-ruling, Black enrollment at top schools dropped where race was banned. MCAT predicts outcomes—mismatch doesn’t create doctors, it risks them. Data > spreadsheets vs. “human judgment” that violated equal protection.

@drterrysimpson Most of our families wouldn't be in this country without the Civil Rights Movement + all of the legislative advances that followed. It's a great debt all immigrants owe to Black America.

@drterrysimpson Doc, I've seen you on my TL for the past three days. Thanks for everything you've sent, being a great ally, supporting all of your points with facts, and being strong in your belief. To the marginalized POC, know that 80% of Asian Americans (including me) support AA.

You moved from arguing about admissions policy to explicitly arguing that Black students are inherently incapable of existing in meaningful numbers within elite academic environments unless standards are corrupted. That is not “defending merit.” That is racial essentialism dressed up in percentile language. And the irony is that many of the Black students you are describing as cognitively incapable are still scoring in the top national percentiles on the MCAT while training at institutions most applicants of any race could never enter. At some point the problem is no longer the admissions process. It is your assumptions about human beings.

@SoloN0IR @JennE_Penny Racism still exists in America today. The legacy of redlining still exists in America today. The police, which are many times more likely to pull over and penalize young Black men, don't GAF if your parents came from Nigeria or your ancestors have been here for 200 years.

@JennE_Penny Asians actually have a legitimate claim…. Affirmative Action should’ve been lineage based and not race-based, for only descendants of slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining. An African immigrant shouldn’t have a major advantage over an Asian immigrant just for being Black🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@HPotoure @JennE_Penny 80% of asians support affirmative action. what you are seeing is a small vocal minority that is propped up by white supremacists.

@JennE_Penny Yea we actually need Asian parents to come to the front of the class and explain wtf they’re teaching their kids.

@lackboys3 @daveweigel There are American Muslims. Israelis are, with very limited exception, NOT Americans.

@daveweigel So the plethora of Muslim lobby groups like CAIR, AMP, MPAC, don’t ever spend money on candidates that support them in Congress, like Rashida Tlaib, Thomas Massie (NIAC Bro) & Chris Murphy? At least be even handed in your reporting. The receipts are there.

The top three most expensive House primaries in history have all involved pro-Israel groups spending to get rid of an Israel critic. 1) Massie 2026, 2) Bowman 2024, 3) Bush 2024

@ArunAnnow the real anti-caste praxis is going vegan

@JeffAnderson_ I wish that Asians understood that their spots are not being "taken away" for other minorities, but rather to keep the % of white students in the school steady. Especially true at the UG level, not so sure about med school. But logically, med school outcomes are affected by UG.

Yall can seriously not be this pressed about Yale having 44 total black medical students lol.

@dale_jonat86252 @ijbailey US tax dollars are not funding their oppression of women

@ijbailey Fuck off!You are a myopic moron who will die alone. All the conflicts in the world and you are laser focused on the one jewish nation attacked from all sides. 22 arab nations governed under the most retrograde repressive anti- woman racist ideology don't concern you.

Here's something pro-Israel folks miss: When the Israeli public seemed more eager to punish an Israeli lawyer who told the world about a documented sexual assault of a Palestinian detainee rather than the soldiers who did it, that raised alarm bells like little else. 1/

@Antonio82114325 @YourLocalDoe @bighorsebox Christopher Langan is probably lacking possession of a lot of other skills that are necessary to work at Raytheon rofl

@YourLocalDoe @bighorsebox Never heard of Christopher Langan huh

the reason this happens is really funny raytheon figured out in like the 80s if they didn't make being gay as shameful in their corporate culture "give us state secrets or we'll tell everyone you're gay", a normally very effective blackmail technique, would not work as well

@Poppy_me1 @teachrobotslove If he actually followed through with it he would be vegan rofl.

@teachrobotslove Peter Singer is closest to a morally good person imo. coming up with "If you can prevent suffering without sacrificing something of comparable moral importance, you are morally obligated to do so." and then actually following through with it is insanely based

Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them. We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken. And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.

@cedaroutdoors1 @gilbert_ty61348 @oCanucks @valdombre right after we send you back up ur moms vagina

@gilbert_ty61348 @Driskal @oCanucks @valdombre The first lesson should be to send a few million Indians back to India.

A Prince George, BC, school has launched an afterschool Punjabi language program. The school is described as 40% "Indo-Canadian" and had heard "worries from parents who wanted to keep their children connected to their language and culture".

@Anura_Indo No shot that figure is accurate. Highly likely to be underreported.

Acid attacks are rare in India, roughly 200 cases a year in a population of 1.4 billion. They’re horrific, but they don’t define the whole country or daily life of Indian women . Major respect to the survivors at the café, though. >•• stop spreading lies

@nimbytwink @brycelar7522706 @depression2019 Scientology is known for completely shunning people who decide to leave the church and often using physical force/torture and coercion to make them stay. Don't think Catholicism + vast majority of mainstream/Western forms of Judaism and Islam really do this.

@brycelar7522706 @depression2019 Indeed! So on principle I really condemn the unique targeting of this “religious instituion “ as protected by Law ™️ because in that legal sense I really don't see what makes it diff then MANY other registered “religions”

@futur3reference @photobiogenesis schizophrenia is not the same thing as did?

Being born blind completely abolishes the risk of developing schizophrenia One of the must utterly insane and fascinating examples of how little we know about mental illness Over decades of research there hasn't been a single case of congenital blindness + schizophrenia

@cheezedhamz @photobiogenesis Also, your estimate is an order of magnitude off according to the study -> should be 0.0002%, not 0.00002%.

@cheezedhamz @photobiogenesis This comment raised an intriguing point. I googled and found this study: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC36…. From the paper: ""although this is a low prevalence rate, it is equal to or higher than the rates for several other well-known conditions (e.g., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease....)