And why is it OK for black youngsters or Hispanic youngsters or whatever youngsters to fall short of the entrance requirements at virtually every college and university in the U.S. and still be admitted when the same is not true for white (or for some strange, unfathomable reason Oriental) kids? Why?

The only justification ever offered in support of the patent unfairness of this whole thing is that the members of the first group are trying to recover from decades of mistreatment. (Even the teenagers?)

The members of the second group have no such problem.

So in the interest of fairness, allowances have to be made.

It’s an argument that’s a perfect example of a fallacy of logic known as the fallacy of special pleading.

Which involves the application of a double standard: one for the members of a group claiming to be underprivileged, or disadvantaged, and, therefore, deserving of special consideration, and another, a much stricter one, for everyone else.

But which other racial, ethnic, or religious group members in this country couldn't justifiably make the same claim? The Orientals? The Irish? The Germans? The Amish? The Mormons? The Jews? Which?

Perhaps the best treatment of this deplorable hypocrisy that you'll ever run across is the chilling last and final Commandment put up on the wall by one of the pigs in George Orwell’s book titled Animal Farm: It said:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS
ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Think about it.