Pragmatically speaking, I don’t buy the evidence that affirmative action helps minorities as a whole. When students with lower test scores are placed in academically rigorous schools like Harvard, they may end up flunking out or changing their major to something easier.
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Maybe some do, but I think overall people do fine. And I think we owe it to black people to give them a stake in the American elite, and that means elite schools.
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Much stronger case for AA for black people descended from US slaves and native americans than for any immigrants. Latter families chose to come here willingly accepting our "warts and all."
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That's weird thinking to me. Nobody alive today chose to be born here or there, black or white. Affirmative action can be a good proxy for "giving opportunity to poor people with no network". But it shouldn't be motivated racially, even when formally implemented so.
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Um, could it be that the latter is really the point? Look at who’s behind the lawsuit.
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yeah but their tactic shouldn't work
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Agree, but magic is about distraction. And we have a Supreme Court that’s salivating as it waits for this case.
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This is the nature of government programs. Astounding amount of government spending for instance just circulated. You create a benefit for one group other groups try to and frequently receive similar benefit. Perfect example. Doesn't make it right, makes it reality
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Affirmative action should just be for poor people.
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Truly that should be the case, but then, in many regions of this country, poverty tends to be a proxy for race. The issue is a complex one that will not be solved with simple solutions.
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Exactly so the economic situation will capture the variables that contribute to disparity of opportunity- not just whatever the flavor of the moment happens to be.
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Yes and no. There are still systemic forms of discrimination against certain minorities (in particular African-Americans and Hispanics) the function of which have little to do with economics and yet carry significant impact. I want to do away with AA. We are not ready yet.
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2/ The way I see it, we could start shifting AA so that it only applies to Native Americans and African-Americans. Perhaps *some* Hispanics from historically disenfranchised communities (Chicano and Puerto Ricans, but not recently arrived Hispanics.
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3/ And we should start including students White students from historically poor areas in the South/Appalachia. Alongside we begin to do AA based on income, and within 1-2 generations we switch fully to an income-based system.
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4/ Quite honestly (and I'm sorry if I'm going off the tangent), most of this would not be needed if we had affordable post-HS adult/trade/vocational education *across the board* (we focus way too much in 4-year degrees.) We simply do not cultivate human capital.
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What's odd is that the "personal ratings" are ill-defined and may be stealthily designed to hold down Asian enrollments to the benefit of all other races.
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My sense is that Asian Americans (especially Chinese) increasingly are attending the same exclusive private schools as whites and are increasingly living in same upper-middle class neighborhoods 1/
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1/ The way I see it. A. I believe AA has worked, in particular with historically disenfranchised minorities. B. We are closer to a point where AA should be phased out to a program based on income.
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It's a complex and serious discussion that requires adherence to the facts, data and ongoing research, rather than ideology. But that won't stop people trying to use cases like this as a wedge issue for cruder reasons. sadly.
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