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Worth noting by the way that legacy admissions are themselves racist in favor of the types of people who were allowed into those schools several generations ago

• yucky 4y ago
  When you say "i.e. white people" can you explain how legacy admissions benefit some white kid from the trailer park or Appalachia or whatever? Because it really sounds like you're describing something that benefits a specific class, not an overall race.
  • kevinventullo 4y ago
    Oh it doesn’t benefit the kid from Appalachia at all, in fact that kid must squeeze into the slice of the white quota that hasn’t already been carved out for legacy admits. Rather, I find it rich how much these schools bend over backwards to claim they’re ensuring equity and progressive morals in their admissions while simultaneously maintaining the regressive and archaic practice of legacy admits, which are implicitly racist in favor of (the most privileged subset of) white people.
    • yucky 4y ago
      Then doesn't this prove that Affirmative Action is structurally racist? The vast majority of white kids don't benefit from legacy admissions, and so the system forces them to "squeeze into the slice of the white quota that hasn’t already been carved out for legacy admits." So now what impact do we suppose that has on racial harmony when we're telling millions of kids to get bent because they have the wrong skin color and were too poor to be looked upon kindly by the institutional powers? And now we sit here with a surprised pikachu face at this rise of racial anger.