How neocons open the door to multiculturalism then deplore it by Lawrence Auster

An interesting-sounding article is summed up at Powerline:

Michael Barone surveys the disgraceful state of our major colleges and universities. Barone elegantly summarizes the problems--speech codes, racially discriminatory admissions policies, dishonest administrators, domination of humanities departments by leftist professors intent on portraying American society as evil--and shows how these phenomena are inter-related. Thus, speech codes protect the feelings of students admitted with relatively poor credentials pursuant to racial quotas. Meanwhile, administrators must insist that they aren't using racial quotas in admissions, so that to be an administrator at one of these elite institutions "you have to be willing to lie about what you consider one of your most important duties." But it isn't really lying because, as the humanities department has explained, "truth" is merely a construct of our racist, sexist, homophobic, and imperialistic society.

A reader writes:

I never thought Barone would be this direct. He says speech codes came when AA brought people in who were below the standard, so their feelings wouldn't be hurt, and also to free administrators from accusations of using preferential treatment.

Indeed. Here's the key Barone passage:

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