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When States Ban Affirmative Action, White People Profit The Most
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The people getting into Harvard, many of them get in because of social connection’s rather than merit. The social connections of their parents. It’s also super common to just buy their way in.
The students getting in on merit are the ones they let in because they have a reputation to maintain and can’t have everyone being dumb. That would look bad.
Further, even if that weren’t true, the reason “the most qualified” seem to be rich white kids from rich white families is simply because they can afford much better educations. So, if you want to promote diversity it can’t just be about academic qualifications because you have people who’ve always been in power buying academic quals for the kids- so they always will be in power.
Affirmative action isn’t about taking away from one group and giving it to another, it’s about giving back to a group that historically has been taken from
We don't need to right past wrongs. Just continue to be good people and give everyone and equal opportunity. That's what I do every day. Just be a good person to everyone you see, be willing to share knowledge to those who ask and elevate those around you. I don't specifically treat anyone differently than others based on "past wrongs".
Im sorry, but that's just a flawed way of thinking and perpetuates a divide.
No, as the comment you replied to says, people getting into schools through social connections and money while others don't get in because they didn't have the advantage of an expensive education is what perpetuates the divide.
You can individually be a good person to everyone you see equally but that doesn't fix anything about the systems that don't do good for everyone equally.
Those "past wrongs" are still impacting people alive today. When one racer has been given a two hundred year head start, it's easy to look at the race when everyone's running and think it is fair.
Wait why shouldn't we try to right past wrongs when those past wrongs continue to wrong people?
You could have straight A's too! (If you doubled the teacher's salary and contracted an assistant to do the home work and tests.)