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This is an excellent explanation, but I have one small remark: Diversity and equity is taught at elite cadre schools and used as a distinguishing marker from t
by klqp 4y ago
This is an excellent explanation, but I have one small remark:
Diversity and equity is taught at elite cadre schools and used as a distinguishing marker from the proletariat. This gives elite children a wedge to get into Ive League institutions without high test scores.
Think of it as the new "extracurricular activity" on steroids. Diversity and equity have been co-opted by the elites and are a powerful tool (smoke screen).
- barry-cotter 4y agoQuite. See abolishing the GRE and similar exams for entrance to graduate school as well. Letters of introduction come much easier to the right sort of people than to the kind of strivers who have to rely on objective tests to get into prestigious institutions.
- rayiner 4y agoI went to a merit admissions high school, and as a teenager I’d say stuff like “there are too many Asian nerds here, we should get rid of the admissions tests!” to be edgy. (I was obviously joking—I was an Asian nerd who got in on standardized testing.) In recent years I’ve been shocked to learn how many “nice” liberals basically agree with such statements, except unironically.
- bhouston 4y ago> Diversity and equity is taught at elite cadre schools and used as a distinguishing marker from the proletariat. This gives elite children a wedge to get into Ive League institutions without high test scores. Can you prove that in any way? This sounds like a made up "fact."
- aquaduck 4y agoI'm not OP, but this is a made-up interpretation, not a fact. Unlike facts, interpretations don't have unambiguous true/false values - the question is whether or not (or to what extent) the statement is consistent with facts.
- honkler 4y agoHow can you "prove" it? It is neither a theorem, nor written on a legal document somwhere. It's an observation.