Haven't read this article and don't know if her specific case has any merit or not.
What I do know, is that there really is a very strong drive in this nation to vigorously pursue "diversity" for it's own sake. Universities and corporations alike are desperate to be able to fill up their brochures with enough faces of different types. There are also incentives and penalties built into the system at this point for having or not having enough "diversity."
This can ONLY be accomplished at the expense of (particularly heterosexual) (particularly male) whites. No other way to make it happen. Because they are the ones designated as the only "non-diverse" candidates. And they still represent a numerically large group comprising a majority of applications, typically.
Meritocracy is clearly the way to go, because the alternative fills our society with people who often end up in positions they really didn't belong in. And no, for the dumbasses, I'm not saying "people of color" etc never belong in prominent or important positions. They absolutely do, sometimes... but there are a lot of people who are getting ahead without deserving to, or proving they can operate in certain fields at certain levels... because the shiny lure of how "diverse" they were made the people making the decisions either consciously or subconsciously overlook those problems.
Shit like this is built into the system so deeply now... there's a ton of it that is officially sanctioned, and then there are a ton of other practices which are done on the sly.
Recently I saw someone recalling a story of how, at university, they had a professor who detested them for having conservative views. He was a white guy and this (I believe white female) professor had locked horns with him many times throughout the class. He apparently missed a test which was going to destroy his grade, due to something unavoidable... but she would simply not let him make up the test, end of story. Well, apparently he tutored a few of the black students in the class, and one of them told him about a make up session for the test in question, taking place after hours.
He showed up and the professor was pissed, said it was "invitation only" - of course every single person who'd gotten an invite was a black student. She would let him take the test but only if he kept quiet about it. The test handed out was multiple choice instead of essay as it had been in the proper class itself. The professor also left the room and sure enough, all of the students worked together on the answers while she was gone (which was clearly her intent that they do while she was out of the room based on something she said before leaving, if I'm remembering the details correctly.)
Sorry for the tangent/rant and I know it's just an anecdote, and I personally have never seen anything quite so blatant... but I have seen some things at university and back in high school which are cut from the same cloth as that story.
I've also seen lots of stories in the news about things akin to this. You may have seen the recent story about white parents upset with a school for sending out letters about tutoring sessions which were only for non-white kids.
If you want to get really depressed and have 30 minutes, here's a video called
The Affirmative Action Hoax where an author details his extensive research into the practices surrounding this sort of thing even at very prestigious schools like Yale and Harvard, and even in certification boards, etc. For doctors, police, firefighters, you name it.
The video may be a bit alarmist, but if he's even 10% right about what he says it's scary as hell to me. His research seems well documented.
Fact is, political correctness has run amok and it's compromising our society's standards for competence - which can have disastrous effects if it goes on long enough. I think the fruit of this tree is already evident but will only get moreso.
Again, I want to emphasize, there are absolutely people from every ethnic group, sexual orientation, national origin... race... religion... whatever, you name it, who can perform at the highest tiers of every sort of endeavor whether it be science, law, politics, medicine, tech fields... whatever.
To those people, I have nothing but the most positive feelings possible and I would hate for us to go back to being a society where they can't get their foot in the door. Qualified is qualified, more power to them.
The problem is when diversity becomes it's own end, and competence is put on the back burner so that end can be achieved at all costs.
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