Think Republican support of white nationalists has anything to do with it??It's not racism, just purely random chance that 99% of republicans aren't black... (edit: although I really do wonder about the sanity of that other 1%)
Think Republican support of white nationalists has anything to do with it??
“Now students will be able to compete based on equal standards and individual merit." - McCarthy
Though preferential admission for legacy, athletics, or because you were born to parents with a really fat wallet are legit. Fucking clown car institution we've got here saying things should be colorblind in a world that is anything but.
cash rules everything around me
Well I dont want to hear anything from conservatards about "Activist Judges" anymore. these guys are it.
I write separately to expound upon the universal benefits of considering race in this context, in response to a suggestion that has permeated this legal action from the start. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA)has maintained, both subtly and overtly, that it is unfair for a college’s admissions process to consider race as one factor in a holistic review of its applicants. See, e.g., Tr. of Oral Arg. 19.This contention blinks both history and reality in ways too numerous to count. But the response is simple: Our country has never been colorblind. Given the lengthy history of state-sponsored race-based preferences in America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has unequally advantaged its applicants fails to acknowledge the well documented “intergenerational transmission of inequality” that still plagues our citizenry.1 It is that inequality that admissions programs such as UNC’s help to address, to the benefit of us all. Because the majority’s judgment stunts that progress without any basis in law, history, logic, or justice, I dissent.
On its face, selecting people for the color of their skin is terribly immoral.They just nuked it from orbit
That game may play out nicely in a court of law... for now.Instead of race in admissions ask the question,
Are you part of a group that has suffered from historical discrimination or disenfranchisement codified by the state? (Yes|No)
I think the outcomes would be the same and race would not be used.
Conservatives have bitched about AA forever without EVER suggesting an alternative.On its face, selecting people for the color of their skin is terribly immoral.
On those grounds, Affirmative Action "must" be destroyed.
Oversimplified, yes, but people endorse that view for a reason.
To help people, we must broaden our social programs. So that they DO reach those in need and leave no one behind. Only when our survival is not a rat race, will humans find it within ourselves to examine and address systemic bias and racism. Until then, until we provide enough help to all people, we will never look at others as anything more than competition that must be disposed of. We will continue to fail until we ease the pain of our people.
Why would they want an alternative?Conservatives have bitched about AA forever without EVER suggesting an alternative.
Broaden social programs. You mean those same social programs conservatives are always trying to cut?
In a perfect world with a level playing field, we wouldn't need AA.On its face, selecting people for the color of their skin is terribly immoral.
On those grounds, Affirmative Action "must" be destroyed.
Oversimplified, yes, but people endorse that view for a reason.
To help people, we must broaden our social programs. So that they DO reach those in need and leave no one behind. Only when our survival is not a rat race, will humans find it within ourselves to examine and address systemic bias and racism. Until then, until we provide enough help to all people, we will never look at others as anything more than competition that must be disposed of. We will continue to fail until we ease the pain of our people.