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Even if you don't agree with affirmative action in college admissions, I've never understood the focus on its impact on Asian American applicants as a reason to
by rainsford 3y ago
Even if you don't agree with affirmative action in college admissions, I've never understood the focus on its impact on Asian American applicants as a reason to reject the idea.
The premise behind affirmative action is to balance out racial factors that lead to minority demographics being underrepresented, in this case in elite colleges. If some minority demographics are not underrepresented, that's great, but not obviously a reason to scrap the idea for those that are...why does it have to be all or nothing? You could argue that Asian American college attendance success is proof that there are no racial factors to balance out, but that seems silly as not every minority demographic in the US faces identical situations.
- roflc0ptic 3y agoWhy should being born Asian so drastically negatively affect your ability to get into an elite college? It’s discrimination. They did the same thing with Jews - they introduced standardized testing, found that too many Jews were making it into Harvard, and then added other requirements so they could reject them. For some of us who want a not-systemically-racist society, this seems like a travesty
- asadotzler 3y agoWhy should being born the child of a parents who didn't attend ivy league colleges so drastically affect my ability to get into an ivy league college? It's discrimination.
- roflc0ptic 3y agoDo you think I would disagree?
- cuteboy19 3y agoIronically the only people who disagree are 1. Harvard and 2. Sonya Sotomayor Both of whom support AA
- Pigalowda 3y agoIsn’t that the argument for equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity? I’m in medicine and when I talk to Asian or Indians they are annoyed by affirmative action. Everyone has 1 shot at life and they believe the US is making it harder for them. And it is.
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- nonethewiser 3y ago> why does it have to be all or nothing? Because its racism and no amount is good.