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The concept of affirmative action has never been about individuals. It's a RACE-based correction for RACE-based discrimination. I don't know what makes you thin
by jeb 16y ago
The concept of affirmative action has never been about individuals. It's a RACE-based correction for RACE-based discrimination. I don't know what makes you think it's not racial.
Your solution for the societal crisis you face is to keep those at the bottom at the bottom, just so that your kids will have a 0.002% higher chance of entering one of a few colleges.
You have a large underclass of people whose parents were raised in institutionalised dicrimination. These people are the lowest caste of your society. There is a policy in place that favours a very few of these people to get into spots they would not otherwise get into.
Without this, the status-quo would continue to exist. The problem is this - the status quo is pretty bad. Blacks are less educated, less likely to get jobs, need more welfare, have higher crime rate.
To me, getting more into college seems like it would solve some of those problems.
- jerf 16y agoIf you can't see a distinction between a race and the members of the race, I would contend you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. I recognize this isn't the politically correct solution and I don't care. "Your solution" Wrong. I have not advocated a solution, only the proper questions. I don't question the arguments. I question their temporal relevancy. So let me try asking you a question that nobody else seems to be able to answer: When are we done? What concrete criterion do we use to figure out when to shut off the counter-racism?
- jeb 16y agoHow about when the poverty rate of blacks in your country is not 25%? Or when the average black family has perhaps 80% or 90% of the income of the average white family, up from the current 60%?