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Yes, he definitely did that. What sucks for people like his student is that they counted as a minority and got shafted by that until they didn’t count as a min

Yes, he definitely did that. What sucks for people like his student is that they counted as a minority and got shafted by that until they didn’t count as a minority anymore and got shafted by that too. It sucks to be an invisible minority.

yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
In both cases, Daniel was shafted by racism, ergo, affirmative action is racist.
- johntdaly 5y ago
  Daniel is also a smart kid who can make his way through university without getting a leg up anywhere along the way and come out to be successful afterwards. Just calling affirmative action racist isn’t helping. Things are a bit more nuanced than that and should be treated as such so that useful conversations can happen instead of two sides just calling each other names. Besides, “affirmative action is racist” doesn’t fallow from “Daniel was shafted by racism” and is attackable based only on that point. If you want to argue against affirmative action here you could say: 1) The action is taken towards a group that is already privileged (well performing university students) and is superfluous 2) That the action is more likely to build up bad feelings towards the recipients by deserving individuals that get ignored 3) That the recipients of this action can never be as secure in their achievement and will suffer doubt from outside and inside because of it Argue your point, don’t just assert it. What be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
  - yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
    I think I support your latter point more generally, but I'm not sure I need to further substantiate my comment with evidence, given that the evidence for the shafting is provided in the article. My comment doesn't provide new information — it's merely a laconic summation of arguments implicit in the article.

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Yes, he definitely did that. What sucks for people like his student is that they counted as a minority and got shafted by that until they didn’t count as a min

by johntdaly 5y ago

yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
In both cases, Daniel was shafted by racism, ergo, affirmative action is racist.
- johntdaly 5y ago
  Daniel is also a smart kid who can make his way through university without getting a leg up anywhere along the way and come out to be successful afterwards. Just calling affirmative action racist isn’t helping. Things are a bit more nuanced than that and should be treated as such so that useful conversations can happen instead of two sides just calling each other names. Besides, “affirmative action is racist” doesn’t fallow from “Daniel was shafted by racism” and is attackable based only on that point. If you want to argue against affirmative action here you could say: 1) The action is taken towards a group that is already privileged (well performing university students) and is superfluous 2) That the action is more likely to build up bad feelings towards the recipients by deserving individuals that get ignored 3) That the recipients of this action can never be as secure in their achievement and will suffer doubt from outside and inside because of it Argue your point, don’t just assert it. What be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
  - yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
    I think I support your latter point more generally, but I'm not sure I need to further substantiate my comment with evidence, given that the evidence for the shafting is provided in the article. My comment doesn't provide new information — it's merely a laconic summation of arguments implicit in the article.