Jordan Lasker, according to The New York Times, is “an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.” He is also one of the internet’s most prominent boosters of race science. Last week, the Times credited Lasker by his online name, Crémieux, for his role in a scoop about the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. When applying to Columbia University in 2009, Mamdani checked two boxes to describe his race: “Asian” and “Black or African American.” (Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and is of Indian descent, acknowledged to the Times that he checked multiple boxes on the application, but argued that he was “trying to capture the fullness of my background.”) Lasker, the Times explained, was the “intermediary” who tipped off the publication about Mamdani’s application, which was included in a larger hack of Columbia’s computer systems.After the Times published its story, Lasker… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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