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U.S. colleges face loss of racial diversity if race-conscious admissions banned
- wsgeorge 4y agoI've always felt weird about the voluntary self id sections on job applications that suggest its important somehow to know my ethnic background. Are multicultural societies often like this? I understand the US's history wrt race relations, but my gut feeling has always been that the fixation on the subject is unhealthy.
- throwaway6734 4y agoI feel similarly about skin colored emojis. My brain always appends the end of whatever statement includes them with "as a $SKINCOLOR $GENDER"
- prepend 4y agoIs the goal to admit rich people of underrepresented groups? Or to admit poor people with good potential? From reading about the case it seems like the current approach by Harvard and UNC is to admit people of certain races who are very wealthy. I suppose that’s good if your goal is literally to change the skin color of your college vs to have equal opportunity and admit a diverse student body. It seems odd that they’d be ok to homogenize by class.
- stametseater 4y agoAsk the students at Harvard if they sympathize with the working class and they'll assure you they do. Ask them if they'd be willing to transfer into a perfectly respectable state university with a working class student body, and they'll choke.
- GalenErso 4y agoThe United States is the only country in the world where abolishing positive racial discrimination is somehow controversial.
- stametseater 4y agoIt's meant to be banned already but some people just won't take "no" for an answer.