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My God. Say what you will about affirmative action and discrimination law, but I assure you that minorities and women do not feel like "nobles" in America.
by cynicalkane 14y ago
My God. Say what you will about affirmative action and discrimination law, but I assure you that minorities and women do not feel like "nobles" in America.
- aristotelian 14y agoOh, no, they sure don't! They feel like they're horribly oppressed. But when you look at the actual legal privileges that the actual legal and political system actually affords them - like the privilege not to be insulted, not to mention the 450 free points (blacks over Asians) on their SAT - what you see is almost exactly the kinds of privileges that medieval polities gave their nobilities. I guess there's no sumptuary laws or stuff like that.
- basseq 14y agoBTW, if anyone else was confused by the 450 SAT points comment, here's the detail: "To receive equal consideration by elite colleges, Asian Americans must outperform Whites by 140 points, Hispanics by 280 points, Blacks by 450 points in SAT (Total 1600)." From "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life" by Thomas J. Espenshade & Alexandria Walton Radford (2009) Source: http://80-20initiative.blogspot.com/2012/03/450-point-sat-gap-large-racial.html http://80-20initiative.blogspot.com/2012/03/450-point-sat-ga...