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These false flag diversity initiatives are there to entrench the privileged white elite who are threatened by the children of often 1st generation immigrants.

These false flag diversity initiatives are there to entrench the privileged white elite who are threatened by the children of often 1st generation immigrants. From the article: UC admissions officers have said they were able to thoroughly evaluate the flood of applications without test scores, using 13 other factors in the system’s review process, such as a student’s high school grade-point average, the rigor of courses taken, special talents, essays and extracurricular activities. - Special talents and extracurricular activities are great filters for the privileged. Nothing like the academic promise of fencing and rowing. The Winkelvoss twins from Greenwich Connecticut attended Harvard through the white elite loophole of rowing. - This is why there is an allergy to making it based on class and being poor. I doubt any poor blacks or Hispanics will benefit from this. - Interesting book on this matter: Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby Paperback – August 24, 1992 https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Affirmative-Action-Stephen-Carter/dp/0465068693 https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Affirmative-Action-Stephe...

gibbonsrcool 5y ago
Let’s separate sports from academics. Sports organizations can exist outside the school. I’m suggesting this for all ages. Players can compete in divisions based on skill without school grouping as a factor. A lot of kids don’t play sports because they’re not competitive enough at their school. With these extra-academic divisions there’s more players for each pool of skill level. Another benefit is connecting people across different socioeconomic backgrounds.
- droidist2 5y ago
  I always thought it was weird that colleges have sports teams, then again in Japan companies often have sports teams.
  - downrightmike 5y ago
    American corps also have sports teams, they just typically run under a shell of a rich guy.
reactspa 5y ago
The only way to be color-blind is standardized tests. It's possible that standardized tests are biased. Then fix them! I didn't have rich parents. So I had never gone abroad. A rich parent can send their kids on "charity missions" to poor countries to rack up those "extra curricular points".
- yardie 5y ago
  It's not just possible the ubiquitous SAT was literally created by a white supremacist, Carl Brigham [0]. They are having a moment right now and trying to distance themselves from the racist part of their foundation. > It's possible that standardized tests are biased. Then fix them! We know they are biased but everytime the solution it's brought the solution is to replace them with another biased test. [0] https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-history-of-the-sat-is-mired-in-racism-and-elitism https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-history-of-the-sat-is-mi...
  - Banana699 5y ago
    >It's not just possible the ubiquitous SAT was literally created by a white supremacist, Carl Brigham Literally the genetic fallacy.
  - 1cvmask 5y ago
    There are plenty of foreign tests around the world where not a single white person was involved in devising them. And they are so so much harder, especially in mathematics, than the SAT. Math tests are universally acknowledged to be neutral, even if hard. Most countries have standardized tests that have a spectrum of subjects covered. If you apply to say engineering only your Math and Science scores matter. If you apply to Literature only your language scores matter. Maybe a good idea is to unbundle the English from the Math in the SAT and have two separate tests. Language is definitely "subjective" and open to interpretation compared to Math. Maybe the bias you are referring to is in the English part. - I know people who still contribute to Planned Parenthood even though they know it's founder Margaret Singer was a racist and eugenist.
    - 5y ago
pnutjam 5y ago
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/734/the-campus-tour-has-been-cancelled https://www.thisamericanlife.org/734/the-campus-tour-has-bee...

gibbonsrcool 5y ago

Let’s separate sports from academics. Sports organizations can exist outside the school. I’m suggesting this for all ages. Players can compete in divisions based on skill without school grouping as a factor. A lot of kids don’t play sports because they’re not competitive enough at their school. With these extra-academic divisions there’s more players for each pool of skill level. Another benefit is connecting people across different socioeconomic backgrounds.

droidist2 5y ago
I always thought it was weird that colleges have sports teams, then again in Japan companies often have sports teams.
- downrightmike 5y ago
  American corps also have sports teams, they just typically run under a shell of a rich guy.

reactspa 5y ago

The only way to be color-blind is standardized tests. It's possible that standardized tests are biased. Then fix them! I didn't have rich parents. So I had never gone abroad. A rich parent can send their kids on "charity missions" to poor countries to rack up those "extra curricular points".

yardie 5y ago
It's not just possible the ubiquitous SAT was literally created by a white supremacist, Carl Brigham [0]. They are having a moment right now and trying to distance themselves from the racist part of their foundation. > It's possible that standardized tests are biased. Then fix them! We know they are biased but everytime the solution it's brought the solution is to replace them with another biased test. [0] https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-history-of-the-sat-is-mired-in-racism-and-elitism https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-history-of-the-sat-is-mi...
- Banana699 5y ago
  >It's not just possible the ubiquitous SAT was literally created by a white supremacist, Carl Brigham Literally the genetic fallacy.
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  There are plenty of foreign tests around the world where not a single white person was involved in devising them. And they are so so much harder, especially in mathematics, than the SAT. Math tests are universally acknowledged to be neutral, even if hard. Most countries have standardized tests that have a spectrum of subjects covered. If you apply to say engineering only your Math and Science scores matter. If you apply to Literature only your language scores matter. Maybe a good idea is to unbundle the English from the Math in the SAT and have two separate tests. Language is definitely "subjective" and open to interpretation compared to Math. Maybe the bias you are referring to is in the English part. - I know people who still contribute to Planned Parenthood even though they know it's founder Margaret Singer was a racist and eugenist.
  - 5y ago

pnutjam 5y ago

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/734/the-campus-tour-has-been-cancelled https://www.thisamericanlife.org/734/the-campus-tour-has-bee...