I propose a two-type Affirmative Action system for college admissions. It would give extra consideration to two groups: 1. Black Americans and Native Americans 2. Americans from poor backgroundshttps://twitter.com/business/status/1054374025374433280 …
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How is this two track system fundamentally different from what we have now? It might strengthen support for the Poor, I guess, but otherwise is status quo. No?
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Read the post!!
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Of course. Talented Tenth all over again. You create a (mostly) hereditary elite class that "represents" the lower class. It's kind of like the British Raj in a way. You don't have to deal with people qua people, just the, well, tribal leaders.
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I think that's not the greatest metaphor. And remember that my system would have class AA on top of Black/Native AA.
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I know people like to pooh-pooh the idea that we don't have a class system in the US, but we really don't when it comes to smart people. Working class people who get a TEM education jump to the upper middle class quite easily.
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The thing is people of a certain class are the ones who can better educate their children to become smart and thus successful. So "smart" still becomes a proxy for "class."
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This is 100% true. I am unique as a math PhD what with having gone to American public school and having no academic parents (in fact, first gen, which is the hot new thing). Nonetheless, the truly brilliant get easily found.
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The reason for that is atonement and nothing else, if I read it right?
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Not atonement (or not *just* atonement I guess). It's to make absolutely sure that Black people have a presence in the U.S. elite, to help undo the institutional legacy of slavery/segregation/etc., and to make sure it doesn't happen again, and to give Black people a stake.
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Ok so the underlying driver there is that even with family wealth and rich educational backgrounds of the parents representation is still an issue for those specific children? Growing up in India with ‘reservations’, there are parallels - and issues. Interesting to observe.
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Another way to ask the question - why not advantage an economically challenged child over the one isn’t?
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That's one of Noah's proposals.
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Then there should be no spots left for wealthy African Americans?
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This proposal is mostly great but it needs a creamy layer exception of some kind, at least two generations in, for the ethnic AA to work well
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