• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But asking them who their father is is fine?

    If people gave a shit about fairness they’d care about legacy admission more than affirmative action.

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      1 year ago

      No, that’s not fine either and should also be outlawed due to a history of systemic racism giving some people an advantage over others.

      It should be 100% merit based, plain and simple. It’s the only fair way.

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        1 year ago

        Funny how we addressed the tool that helped black kids first, rather than the one that hurt them.

        Maybe it’s because this is being pushed by bad people, that you seem to agree with under some fantasy of “100% merit based” reality.

        Systemic biases exist, AA compensated for them banking AA is basically pretending this nation isn’t racist AF.

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            1 year ago

            Our entire society is plain wrong, doing things to address those injustices is good actually.

            P.s you can’t be “racist” against white people, in a white supremacists nation.

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                1 year ago

                It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?

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                    1 year ago

                    Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not how it’s going to play out in reality, unfortunately. I truly wish it were.

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        1 year ago

        You can never change who your parents are, that’s some real mental gymnastics to justify how hereditary acceptance criteria is good actually, but using race to identify those underservered by k-12 education, lacking in family connections, not having knowledge of college specific tricks to getting accepted & generally having less resources available to do the extra-ciricular activity to get in, and compensate for that bias is bad.

        Affirmative action is only silly if you don’t accept that systemic racism exists.