"Racially-tinged" has become widely mocked as a journalese circumlocution for simply "racist", so it's interesting that "race-conscious" still gets a pass.pic.twitter.com/DTA0j02Ico
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"Racially-tinged" has become widely mocked as a journalese circumlocution for simply "racist", so it's interesting that "race-conscious" still gets a pass.pic.twitter.com/DTA0j02Ico
My third grade teacher explained racism to us as "people shouldn't be treated differently based on the color of their skin", which I thought made a lot of sense. I don't know if the current definition of racism, full as it is of epicycles, is explainable at all to a third grader.
The extremely fast-changing structure of taboos and correct lines of thinking around race has become its own highly effective form of elite gatekeeping. It takes years to master and part of the conceit is that all the complexity should be obvious to any right-thinking person
The epicycles in this case are because the core goal of Harvard admissions is to privilege wealthy failchildren while looking like that is not what they are doing.
Their core goal is to pick the 0.001% by some means short of sortition, and they're not allowed to just give a really hard exam and pick the top scores from that, so I kind of sympathize with the problem.
Except for the over 1/3 of students who are legacy admissions. (The rest are the 0.001% and meant to make the legacies look better).
I mean the future 0.001%, however selected.
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