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The color blind thinking modal has a long history of helping the majority stay the majority. What you propose is to continuing allow the status quo, which has a
by tdhz77 5y ago
The color blind thinking modal has a long history of helping the majority stay the majority. What you propose is to continuing allow the status quo, which has already by statistical aggregation of college entrance proved to allow under performing “whites” in. Have you not seen the news where Aunt Becky got her kid in? Without tough affirmative action rules, Aunt becky’s kids get in and your kids don’t.
This thinking model is best to be dropped into the dustbins of history.
- zozbot234 5y ago> Have you not seen the news where Aunt Becky got her kid in? Without tough affirmative action rules, Aunt becky’s kids get in and your kids don’t. This whole controversy is about a handful of the most elite schools in the nation. I find it more than a bit silly tbh, since whatever admissions policy they choose it's not going to be even close to affecting "the majority" of prospective students. We should be working to expand access to education at every level, not just focusing on such a tiny minority.
- rayiner 5y agoBlack, Latino, and Asian people all oppose racial preferences in admission: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americans-say-colleges-should-not-consider-race-or-ethnicity-in-admissions/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ.... For example Latinos say that race and ethnicity shouldn’t be even a “minor factor” in college admissions by a margin of 2:1. Like many things, this is in large part about liberal white people wanting to engage in social engineering on behalf of minorities who mostly don’t support their policy. Like “defund the police.”
- tdhz77 5y ago30 years of conservatives not understanding what affirmative action is really the reason for this. They often misquote 1970’s affirmative action law which was thrown out by the liberal court. It’s shocking how most people don’t understand affirmative action and it’s rationale. But, then again conservatives aren’t thinking people.
- dolni 5y ago> 30 years of conservatives not understanding what affirmative action is really the reason for this. And yet you haven't made any persuasive argument about what it "really" is or why it's good. > But, then again conservatives aren’t thinking people. Imagine the hubris someone must possess to casually dismiss millions of other people as "not thinking". Have you looked in the mirror today?
- temp8964 5y agoSo what is the correct understanding of affirmative action, you thinking people?
- mbostleman 5y agoSo racism is fundamentally good and the tool to use, but it just needs to be carefully guarded to be safe - sort of like nuclear power?
- gjhh244 5y agoMembers of certain minorities aren't underrepresented because of their skin colour, but because they are more likely to be poor and lack access to quality education at childhood and youth. Racial discrimination against whites and Asians in higher education is not the best way to fix any of this. Progressive taxation, better childhood/youth education for everyone on the other hand could make a big difference.
- temp8964 5y agoNot just poor and lack access, also different culture.
- imwillofficial 5y ago> The color blind thinking modal has a long history of helping the majority stay the majority. Come on guys, to be less racist we must be MORE racist!
- tdhz77 5y agoOr the alternative or your reality.. ignore Jim Crow existed?
- imwillofficial 5y agoWhat the heck are you talking about?
- akomtu 5y agoThat's an intellectually lazy rhetoric inspired by probably those ibram kendi's books. People who promote it really deserve to live in a society where dentists, surgeons, engineers making cars and bridges, all get their jobs because they are "underprivileged minorities" of some sort and not the best and most competent in their field.