• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
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    But asking them who their father is is fine?

    If people gave a shit about fairness they’d care about legacy admission more than affirmative action.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
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      No, that’s not fine either and should also be outlawed due to a history of systemic racism giving some people an advantage over others.

      It should be 100% merit based, plain and simple. It’s the only fair way.

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        Funny how we addressed the tool that helped black kids first, rather than the one that hurt them.

        Maybe it’s because this is being pushed by bad people, that you seem to agree with under some fantasy of “100% merit based” reality.

        Systemic biases exist, AA compensated for them banking AA is basically pretending this nation isn’t racist AF.

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            Our entire society is plain wrong, doing things to address those injustices is good actually.

            P.s you can’t be “racist” against white people, in a white supremacists nation.

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                It’s very difficult. Discriminating against white people in a fundamentally white supremacist society (which the US is) is a bit like farting in a hurricane. I mean… do you see footage of black cops casually murdering white people at least once every week?

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                    Your unwillingness to acknowledge it doesn’t make it any less true - the US was built on white supremacism. Whether it can actually exist without white supremacism is an unknown and perhaps worth debating - but what it is right now is no mystery.

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        That’s not how it’s going to play out in reality, unfortunately. I truly wish it were.

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      Neither is ok. But only one likely violates the constitution. Congress could make legacy admissions illegal if they wanted to.

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        Congress could’ve made affirmative action illegal if they wanted to?

        But only one side works as the majority’s dog whistle.

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          Yes. Even noted red state California (/s) voted in a referendum to make the practice illegal.

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        I really appreciate this take, because it reminded me that I can always call my congressman (or at least their office) and voice my opinion to ears that might be able to do something about it.

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        You can never change who your parents are, that’s some real mental gymnastics to justify how hereditary acceptance criteria is good actually, but using race to identify those underservered by k-12 education, lacking in family connections, not having knowledge of college specific tricks to getting accepted & generally having less resources available to do the extra-ciricular activity to get in, and compensate for that bias is bad.

        Affirmative action is only silly if you don’t accept that systemic racism exists.

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          Affirmative action is only silly if you don’t accept that systemic racism exists.

          Just because AA isn’t “silly” doesn’t mean it’s a correct policy

          Most of AA “positives” can be achieved with income-based criteria, more seats in courses and the unachievable better base education and home environment

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            Fine the mental gymnastics is to justify why hereditary admission criteria are more acceptable to you not “good”

            Yes the white kid does.

            • The racial biases of whoever runs the admission system
            • The racial biases of teachers at the school
            • The white kid is still more likely to benefit from hereditary admission and insider information on how to do well in admission tests/letter.

            To pretend a white kid in a predominantly black school doesn’t have an advantage in “colorblind” admissions is to deny the existence of systemic racism.

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                Without AA, racism in admissions is illegal.

                No positive measure to counteract systemic biases are illegal.

                Hereditary admissions when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

                All the implicit systemic biases in the admission system are very much legal

                The only thing you can’t do is ensure black kids get admitted.

                If you have a system and you know its giving you biases results you can compensate for the bias, without understanding every single component bias, that’s what AA was, banning it, is sticking your head in the sand and going back to faux/real Naïvity about how system racism works.

                We might as well start asking “why do black people prefer renting?”, because as a nation we are commited to pretending to not understand that there are systemic reasons for things.

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                  when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

                  Black people only make up 12.6% of the population. If 80% of previous students aren’t black, then black students are heavily over-represented in the student body.

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              The racial biases of whoever runs the admission system

              Can be biased both for or against the student based on who the specific administrators are.

              The racial biases of teachers at the school

              Can be biased both for or against the student based on who the specific teachers are.

              • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
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                Sure buddy, and if you’re too stupid to get into any college you might believe both those have the same chance of happen 🤣