{"id":16504,"date":"2016-10-31T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2016-10-31T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:21:39","slug":"mindy-kalings-brother-posed-as-black-to-get-into-med-school-their-feud-offers-insight-into-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2016\/10\/31\/mindy-kalings-brother-posed-as-black-to-get-into-med-school-their-feud-offers-insight-into-liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindy Kaling&#8217;s brother posed as black to get into med school; their feud offers insight into liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/612962626\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/612962626?et=TvLcB8NwTLFQisf97uGEHA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=AUKnxjloWCeXekZyRpQKZAZo5aDjCZoBhoBE6Bkoc9Q=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you were to peer into the mind of a liberal, you would see a world where affirmative action is viewed as a great program that single-handedly saved minorities from the brink and where slut-shaming is quite possibly one of humanities greatest offenses. This EXACT scenario is playing out right in front of us within the family of Mindy Kaling, star of <i>The Mindy Project<\/i>\u00a0and formerly <i>The Office<\/i>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both Kaling and her not-so-famous brother, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, are engaged in a bit of a family feud right now. See, Vijay just published a book called <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1483576043\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1483576043&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=nancfren-20&amp;linkId=ce2dc7429a91c11e40750f895f4b064f\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got Into Medical School By Pretending to Be Black<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=nancfren-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1483576043\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">.<\/i> In it, he explains how he manipulated the affirmative action requirements when applying to different schools even though his family was wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his privileged upbringing, in which his mother was a doctor, his father was an architect, he owned nice cars, had paid-for tuition, but earned a less-than-desirable GPA of 3.1, Vijay was accepted into St. Louis University School of Medicine simply for telling them he was a black man.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16512\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/9\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.18.30-AM-600x291.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-31 at 11.18.30 AM\" width=\"600\" height=\"291\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy plan actually worked. Lucky for you, I never became a doctor,\u201d he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthrevolt.org\/news\/indian-man-pretended-be-black-got-accepted-med-school\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">once wrote<\/a> on his blog.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Vijay has become an outspoken critic of race-based social programs because they don\u2019t help the underprivileged. And that has rubbed his sister the wrong way. Kaling is worried that her brother\u2019s story will \u201cbring shame on our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the first shot fired in this feud.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/10\/15\/mindy-kalings-family-feud-exposes-americas-cultural-divide\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New York Post<\/a><\/i>, Vijay fired back: \u201cYou play a slut on national TV, and you think this [book] will bring shame on the family?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that was, perhaps, the man\u2019s biggest mistake yet, because, in the minds of the liberal elite, slut-shaming is an unforgivable sin.<\/p>\n<p>Slate writer Heather Schwedel wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWell, I guess we found the one person in 2016 who hasn\u2019t heard the term \u2018slut-shaming.\u2019 Memo to Vijay: Pretty much all of society got together and agreed that criticizing a woman for her perceived sexual activity is a no-no! You could even make the argument that it\u2019s cool to be \u2018slutty\u2019 these days, to look good in revealing clothes and be confident in your sexuality.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting peek inside the minds of liberals \u2014 sexual promiscuity is confidence and discriminatory programs like affirmative action can\u2019t be criticized.<\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Post<\/em> notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen you give preference to one racial group, you take away something from another. Which is why so many South and East Asians are denied admissions to good universities across the country \u2014 when they are more qualified than the kids who do get in. According to \u201cNo Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal,\u201d a book by two Princeton professors released in 2009, an Asian-American student must score 450 points higher on the combined math and verbal sections of the SAT to have the same chance of being admitted to an elite university as an African-American applicant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn\u2019t this something that can be discussed?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy Kaling&#8217;s brother pretended to be black so he could get into med school. 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