In a recently unearthed clip from several years ago, CNN’s Abby Phillip abruptly ended an interview with Students for Fair Admissions board member Kenny Xu after he challenged her tired woke talking points about affirmative action and crushed her with hard facts. The biased journalist attempted to pivot to non-academic factors, such as socioeconomic status, but Xu argued for a race-neutral standard.
For context, President Trump has issued several executive orders attacking the racist policy of affirmative action, and much like Xu, has faced biased coverage from the media. This clip is emblematic of the idea that while the media hate Trump, they do so because he represents real Americans.
In any case, starting the highly contentious clip from June 29, 2023, Phillips began by retreating to tired woke boilerplate. The CNN journalist whined, “Colleges obviously care about grades and SAT scores, but they also are filling universities of people, human beings who have other factors that they bring to the table. Why is it not okay for them to consider those things?”
Firing back with perfect poise, Kenny Xu shut her down expertly. “I’m saying, if you’re going to consider those things, you should consider them without respect to race. If you take race out of it, let’s call it socioeconomic status, where whether or not they grew up wealthy or poor… How is that not something that colleges might have an interest in considering?”
Continuing the epic rhetorical beatdown, he answered his own question. “The reason why you shouldn’t consider that is because you should consider the success of an applicant because of affirmative action. Black Americans graduate from law school at the bottom 25% of their classes, largely speaking, and we don’t want that,” the civil rights activist noted.
Building on this point, he expertly attacked the moral core of her so-called argument. Xu said, “We want black students to succeed. We want every student to succeed, low-income students to succeed. But you have to put them in scenarios, in places where they’re likely to succeed. And lowering your standard to admit somebody of a socioeconomic status or race would not help them do that.”
Winbding down, his comments, the activist left Phillips stuttering. “In fact, it would harm their graduation rate and excellence. The standard isn’t necessarily lowered because its students are all admitted. The question is whether race can be an added consideration,” he declared.
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In conclusion, the Students for Fair Admissions board member used facts and logic to demolish the woke journalist, saying, “The standard is lowered, as admissions data shows, an Asian has to score 273 points higher on the SAT to have the same chance of admission as a black person. So the standard is lowered for black Americans.”
Watch the clip here:
Clearly uncomfortable, the cowardly news anchor ended the segment quickly rather than keep losing publicly to the young conservative. She panicked, saying, “Kenny Xu, thank you for your perspective. We really appreciate it.”
Featured image from embedded video