• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.