[marcuskane2]

Race is such a weak proxy for privilege.

A white kid from a trailer park in West Virginia with low-income, absentee parents is far less privileged than a black kid from Palo Alto with affluent, involved parents.

Affirmative Action (or DEI, the name doesn't matter) is a very crude, inaccurate tool to try to use to address the inequalities in the world. The genuinely privileged find ways around it (they have the money, connections and knowledge of how to game the system) while the underprivileged white kids born into low income households end up facing an impossibly uphill battle to escape the cycle of poverty.

To be perfectly clear to preempt uncharitable interpretations, I'm 100% anti-racist, I acknowledge the historical racism prolific throughout American history and I want a more just, fair and equal world. My point is that as a tool to achieve those goals, race-based university admissions and hiring is unproductive at best and counter-productive in most cases. It may be well-meaning people trying to fix real problems, but those intentions don't change the fact that it's ultimately harmful and a net-negative to the goals of a fair, equitable society.