The narrative in the article is that race based admissions replaced meritocratic admission in this case, and the achievements that the Asian American students received were due solely to their hard work. If this is the case, then the obvious conclusion is that the black students (who sat at 2% admission) or the Hispanic students (who sat at 14%) were not hard-working enough, or at the very least, were not as hard working as the Asian American students.
That's not the obvious conclusion, it seems like you might be projecting. Immigrants are a biased sample (they have enough money to leave the country of their birth, enough education to get a visa, etc)
Nigerian immigrants have higher educational attainment when compared to Nigerian-Americans that were born citizens. It doesn't mean Nigerians born in the US are lazy, only that they are operating under different circumstances. The idea that Asians are just inherently good at math or whatever is incredibly offensive, these things are a product of nurture not nature.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was implying anything about innate characteristics of racial groups. I was trying to point out that the picture the article and the parent comment were painting was too simplistic. In general, I don't think any of those groups try harder than the rest and so saying something like "people shouldn't get butt-hurt over this unless they are willing to put the same time and effort in" is ignoring a lot of what goes into the dynamics at play here.
he specifically mentioned one thing and you drew your conclusion about the others.
i could say the sky is blue. that's one conclusion. you're saying in addition to that statement you can conclude that everything else is not blue. which is ridiculous because the ocean is blue too. the whole "the opposite is true" logic is a fallacy.
I don't see how it's a fallacy in this case; this is definitional in the construction of meritocratic admissions: the people admitted have more merit than the ones that are not. OP phrased it as a matter of effort, and I was just making explicit what he left implicit.
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