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I don’t put much stock in heliocentrism because i’ve heard similar arguments in favor of turtles all the way down, too.
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But, I mean, affirmative action is dead and the white Boomers roll back another of the few decent things they fought for in their parasitic, selfish existence.
I’m disgusted today. Hard for me to think rationally about this one, because of how it’s been key to my family’s struggle to reduce the effects of bias we have to suffer.
I’m disgusted today. Hard for me to think rationally about this one, because of how it’s been key to my family’s struggle to reduce the effects of bias we have to suffer.
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Clarence trying to get me a profanity ban from Meth
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Clarence Thomas literally didn't say a word for, like, 25 years, and now he's getting very chatty and questioning everything now that he has the majority.
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Those dark money checks are clearing at record pace apparently.
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The affirmative action challengers are actually citing Brown v Board for the proposition that race-based preferences are unconstitutional
Were SCOTUS to accept that nonsense it might be the most cynical thing they've done yet. If Brown has any bearing at all on this case, it supports the anti-segregation measures
Were SCOTUS to accept that nonsense it might be the most cynical thing they've done yet. If Brown has any bearing at all on this case, it supports the anti-segregation measures
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Beating a dead horse here, but I'm sure glad those people in 2016 who couldn't vote for the lesser evil have a clear conscience. At least that's something.
Somebody needs to ask Clearance how many centuries of de facto affirmative action have white people benefited from.
Somebody needs to ask Clearance how many centuries of de facto affirmative action have white people benefited from.
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Clearly this isolationist island nation can't be trusted to govern themselves
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Republicans believe that affirmative action is the practice of mindlessly putting unqualified hacks in a position that don’t deserve in order to appease people of color because there simply don’t exist qualified candidates of color.
And, to their credit, they practice exactly what they preach.
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Cue da bugs bunny gif.
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In this case though, it’s a guisano problem. We don’t want to cast off the socialist Haitians in South Florida and reliable Democratic black voters in the panhandle only to leave the guisano infection festering in Texas and California. We can’t solve this problem with an amputation, we need antibiotics.
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BTW, my dad, who is a guisano, said it’s a racist term so I jokingly now call him a guisanx and myself a half guisanx.
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Affirmative action and the opposition to it, perfectly encapsulates the tendency of middle and upper middle class whites to punch down because they find punching up to be either impossible or possible but undesirable.
So many spots at elite schools are taken through outright legacy admissions and the de facto legacy/upper class solidarity of admitting “well rounded students” which really means kids whose parents are wealthy enough to send them to expensive private schools, get so so grades and SAT/ACT scores but play sports or do some fake charity work overseas for a few weeks in the summer.
The super wealthy, who are almost all white, take far more spots at elite institutions than well qualified POC ever did even at the peak of affirmative action. Yet, we never see lawsuits challenging the upper class domination of elite admissions but all those petty bourgeois provincial elites love suing elite institutions over the fact that they may have given extremely well qualified, non white applicants, a slight boost in admissions and caused their child to attend a different elite institution that wasn’t their first choice.
Breaking up a system of explicit and implicit legacy admissions is hard; it’s even harder to imagine, let alone create, a world where higher education is not such a crucial gate keeper to social prestige and economic comfort; it’s harder still to imagine a world where there are no elites and everyone is assured an equal share of the bounty that is produced by a modern, ultra productive, high tech economy, and therefore education becomes able to serve its ideal purpose, as a pursuit of truth and of our best selves.
What is easy is punching down and blaming bad outcomes caused by upper class whites on POC and it’s never been easier to convince our rigged courts to agree with your that these last little vestiges of affirmative action constitute a harm and must be abolished as a result.
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I hate people, man. I am far from a violent person but I would have to hit dude with the Draymond if he said this to me in person. The twisted logic people use to discount programs and policies that benefit minorities is amazing. If they used that much energy to help coming up with solutions, the problems probably wouldn't exist in the first place
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I can’t remember where I heard the term “hedge fund with a school” used to describe Ivy leagues. But many of the elite schools are now so wealthy that they could forgo alumni donations and tuition and government money, and they’d be fine. In other words, they choose not to seriously pursue diversity and instead consciously perpetuate the inherited class structure in America. But, liberal haven and indoctrination or whatever.
Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine
If you had a car that could run forever, would you still stop for gas?
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sadly, our society has been built that way since the earliest of time. wealth and prestige set the seat of power. this is why it is close to impossible that we would have a sort of utopian society. atleast in other countries, we see that they are trying and somewhat attaining some of that utopian society. and they are not practicing democracy but what americans fear.
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I hate people, man. I am far from a violent person but I would have to hit dude with the Draymond if he said this to me in person. The twisted logic people use to discount programs and policies that benefit minorities is amazing. If they used that much energy to help coming up with solutions, the problems probably wouldn't exist in the first place
Study finds 43 percent of Harvard's white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff
The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.
www.nbcnews.com
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