[tdhz77]

The color blind thinking modal has a long history of helping the majority stay the majority. What you propose is to continuing allow the status quo, which has already by statistical aggregation of college entrance proved to allow under performing “whites” in. Have you not seen the news where Aunt Becky got her kid in? Without tough affirmative action rules, Aunt becky’s kids get in and your kids don’t.

This thinking model is best to be dropped into the dustbins of history.

[rayiner]

Black, Latino, and Asian people all oppose racial preferences in admission: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ.... For example Latinos say that race and ethnicity shouldn’t be even a “minor factor” in college admissions by a margin of 2:1.

Like many things, this is in large part about liberal white people wanting to engage in social engineering on behalf of minorities who mostly don’t support their policy. Like “defund the police.”

[gjhh244]

Members of certain minorities aren't underrepresented because of their skin colour, but because they are more likely to be poor and lack access to quality education at childhood and youth. Racial discrimination against whites and Asians in higher education is not the best way to fix any of this. Progressive taxation, better childhood/youth education for everyone on the other hand could make a big difference.

[temp8964]

Not just poor and lack access, also different culture.

[mbostleman]

So racism is fundamentally good and the tool to use, but it just needs to be carefully guarded to be safe - sort of like nuclear power?

[zozbot234]

> Have you not seen the news where Aunt Becky got her kid in? Without tough affirmative action rules, Aunt becky’s kids get in and your kids don’t.

This whole controversy is about a handful of the most elite schools in the nation. I find it more than a bit silly tbh, since whatever admissions policy they choose it's not going to be even close to affecting "the majority" of prospective students. We should be working to expand access to education at every level, not just focusing on such a tiny minority.

[akomtu]

That's an intellectually lazy rhetoric inspired by probably those ibram kendi's books. People who promote it really deserve to live in a society where dentists, surgeons, engineers making cars and bridges, all get their jobs because they are "underprivileged minorities" of some sort and not the best and most competent in their field.

[imwillofficial]

> The color blind thinking modal has a long history of helping the majority stay the majority.

Come on guys, to be less racist we must be MORE racist!

[tdhz77]

Or the alternative or your reality.. ignore Jim Crow existed?

[imwillofficial]

What the heck are you talking about?