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Equitable, 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 re

by s17n 3y ago

Equitable, 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 ago
Equity 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?
- s17n 3y ago
  TBH I'm probably fine with any system that doesn't give preference to legacy and faculty admits
  - DrThunder 3y ago
    You would be, since you can't even define what the word equity means. Emotional idiocy in the name of "fairness" leads to the worst atrocities imaginable.