frog_squid

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by frog_squid 6y ago
Yes, in Thomas Sowell's Affirmative Action Around the World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_Action_Around_the_... "They tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group (e.g. b
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by frog_squid 6y ago
Yes, for other minorities, instead of observing the rise in the educational and financial success of Asian Americans and using it as a motivational example, in some ways what Asian Americans took away from Jewish success in America, they po
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by frog_squid 6y ago
If I were to go along with your metaphor I would say what affirmative action is doing is starting with a a car that pulls slightly to the left. Then, instead of taking the car to the mechanic and having the root issue fixed, laws are passed
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by frog_squid 6y ago
What I find really funny is that the current American far left, who are very vocal about any kind of racial inequality towards Blacks and Latinos, are the ones most vocal in their support for affirmative action. They don't see it as ra
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by frog_squid 6y ago
What happens if you're a poor Asian kid in America? You get screwed over twice! Once for being poor and once again for being Asian and having a racist education system that requires you to meet a higher bar in order to get into the sam
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by frog_squid 6y ago
Yeah, but the system is gamed and a huge proportion of affirmative action admits don't actually fall in the wealth category that the majority of the people in that minority group would, i.e. most affirmative action admits come from ver