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Giving out legacy admission is Equity. You're giving "legacy" people the same education as people who earned it through merit, which is the definition of being
by DrThunder 3y ago
Giving out legacy admission is Equity. You're giving "legacy" people the same education as people who earned it through merit, which is the definition of being equitable. Unless, you believe equity only applies to race?
Equality is the term you're looking for.
- s17n 3y agoEquitable, adj: fair and impartial. If you actually believe that legacy admissions are a fair and impartial way to decide who gets to go to Harvard, I'm not really sure what to say.
- DrThunder 3y agoEquity is an outcome. You're suggesting we FORCE an outcome and apparently you don't want to base it on legacy. So, what are we basing the forced outcome on? Race? Victim-hood? Gender? Class? Are lower class people of color more deserving of equity? How do you make something equitable? You need to think through the process of how that works. It's every bit as "fair" to gift admissions to family members as it is to someone because they're a different skin tone. Which is to say, both are stupid. How about we give people the resources and they can prove they deserve it through merit?