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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Degree requirements are the last bastion of socially acceptable racism.
by coredog64 9y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Degree requirements are the last bastion of socially acceptable racism.
- GhostVII 9y agoHow is a degree requirement racist?
- berbec 9y ago"The 6-year national college graduation rate is 59% for White students, 51% for Hispanic students, 46% for Black females, and 35% for Black males."[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_achievement_gap_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_achievement_gap_in_the_...
- GhostVII 9y agoThere are racial differences with pretty much everything in the US. Are benefits for poor people racist because they disproportionally help black people? Is having a required entrance average for universities racist because black people have statistically lower grades/graduation rates? Sure, if you are choosing to filter applicants based on criteria where the only effect of the filtering is changing the racial distribution, it may be racist, but that certainly isn't the case when you are filtering based on whether or not a person has a degree.
- EADGBE 9y agoI wonder what those numbers look like without race and with income brackets.
- berbec 9y agoI agree, but there is potentially a larger point when part of the cause is unequal access to education based on race.
- karmajunkie 9y agoI hate to burst your bubble, but yes, those are all evidence of systemic racism.
- johnnyanmac 9y agoI agree to some extent as to how education is a barrier some minorites can't pierce, but those statistics seem pretty reasonable. roughly half of all students (though there seems to be a slightly lower-than-average retention in black males) in general drop out fro various reasons. Maybe the breakdown of reasons reveal some racism, but that isn't something you see at face value. I think the larger problem causing the social divide is getting in to begin with, as opposed to retention.
- kgwgk 9y agoRaising the minimum wage is even more socially acceptable. http://nypost.com/2013/09/17/why-racists-love-the-minimum-wage-laws/ http://nypost.com/2013/09/17/why-racists-love-the-minimum-wa...
- romanovcode 9y agoPretty sure you would not want your doctor to be w/o a proper degree. This "racism" as you call it is perfectly applicable to some professions.
- Double_a_92 9y agoWhat about a black doctor? You'd be racist if you denied...
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoPretty sure the topic was employers asking for degrees for jobs that don't actually requiring them. That does tend to exclude those professions - doctor, lawyer, and so on. It is a little different requiring a degree to be a secretary when a year course would get someone proficient, for example. Heck, you can be a lawyer in four states without going to college so long as you can pass the tests. I'm pretty sure that sort of system would work for lots of professions where we want folks to be educated, but they don't necessarily need the training of say a nurse or doctor.