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> That if the govt hadn’t done something to intervene, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to know any poc until I was an adult. Your greater comfort with the
by barry-cotter 4y ago
> That if the govt hadn’t done something to intervene, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to know any poc until I was an adult.
Your greater comfort with the differently skin coloured members of your social class came at the expense of the people who would have gotten in under a colour blind system. That’s fine as long as people are ok with the fact that different groups are being held to different standards. (Asians famously have “bad personalities”.) But it’s considered déclassé to mention it. This is bad. Lying to people is bad. It leads to children believing the bullshit and then they grow up and believe the bullshit still.
- asimpletune 4y agoThe system in place at my university was color blind. The top 5% of students were automatically accepted.
- barry-cotter 4y ago> Asking bc I went to a good school that had affirmative action. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34678203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34678203 Which was it? Was your school colour blind or did they practice affirmative action? They can’t both be true at the same time.
- asimpletune 4y agoIt is both. The top 5% of students from each high school doesn’t mean the top 5% overall. There was even a recent supreme court case over this. Something can be technically colorblind and still be affirmative action.