It's not about pretending that there is equality of ability. It's about declaring and enforcing an equality of dignity & under law, because every system that has ever enforced such distinctions has produced vastly more injustice than a system that does not.
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Affirmative action can identify high-potential people who have experienced more genuine adversity than typical admits. Handled stupidly, it can encourage admission officers to admit an African princeling over a kid from Bed-Stuy achieving against the odds.
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Concur. And I'd replace "Handled stupidly" with "Handled ideologically" - ideological is often a kind of stupid. I suggest that that's the norm.
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That's "Chadwick Northwick IV, Esq." to you, peon
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Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my Lamborghini engine revving
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