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The article essentially comes down to this quote: "I am appalled that a student with Chinese heritage must climb a 450-point hill in order to compete against s
by uberman 6y ago
The article essentially comes down to this quote:
"I am appalled that a student with Chinese heritage must climb a 450-point hill in order to compete against someone who is Black for a seat at UC Berkeley."
Distilling the issue to either: you support "affirmative action" or you don't.
The author of the article clearly does not. They also coincidentally identify as a "Political Activist" associated with a party not traditionally supportive of "affirmative action".
I'm not sure this is the right forum to have a debate on a political issue like this.
Potentially relevant is that the UC system is going to experiment with dropping standardized testing starting next year.
- Ghjklov 6y agoI don't know, arbitrarily making it more difficult for a certain group of people to compete against others based on their race smells kind of like racism to me. Is that even debatable? Where are the pitchforks? I don't think that's politics. It's racism/discrimination right in front of us. Do Asian lives matter?
- uberman 6y agoarbitrarily making it more difficult for a certain group of people to compete against others based on their race smells kind of like racism to me Without taking sides, this is also the exact argument that someone in favor of affirmative action would make. It is interesting that people can come to the table with essentially the same argument, but diametrically opposed views.