The GOP’s war on racially diverse college campuses was never going to be confined to the party’s war on affirmative action.
I wonder what their final solution will be for diversity?
Black and brown people at the bottom ever subservient to a small elite of rich white cis straight men. It was never about the ‘unfairness’ of affirmative action. If it was you’ll also see them taking aim at the unfairness of legacy admissions as well. It has always been about keeping black and brown folk down and maintaining hierarchy.
Are we also getting rid of legacy admissions? Or is that advantage acceptable?
Let’s use a simple metaphor. You have a bridge. One side of the bridge is heavier than the other, so it’s not balanced. You add a counterweight to balance the bridge.
Several years later, someone says “there’s no need for this counterweight anymore, it’s just unbalancing the bridge.” If the bridge was rebuilt to address the imbalances, you’d be right. But it wasn’t rebuilt, it’s the same bridge with the same flaws it had when the counterweight was put in place. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need affirmative action. But pretending we’re in that ideal world isn’t actually solving anything.
Final solution… I think I’ve heard that somewhere before, I wonder where… Might have been in another language, German maybe…
Seems like their final solution is to stop basing scholarships, awards, and college placement off of the color of a person’s skin or their race.
Median white household income in the U.S. - $74,262
Median black household income in the U.S. - $46,400
Maybe, possibly, black people need more help paying for college than white people?
Let me guess, that lower income is their own fault. Black people need to collectively pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I wonder if education has a part to play in that?
Because if we gain power, they lose it. Hierarchy must be maintained. When everyone has power, no one does. And that’s not “fair.”
“We don’t need these old protections, we’re different now.”
Oh, really? What, pray tell, makes us, less than 100 years later, so fundamentally different from Jim Crow supporters and the fucking Nazis that we don’t need to be concerned about it anymore? I find it to be particularly shocking news that Dr. King fixed racism for all time, considering my experience living in the south when Obama was running for president.
I don’t buy it. I think this is ultimately about keeping the poor down.
But don’t you dare call the GOP racist!
The GOP is garbage, AND, giving people special privileges based on skin color or race is fucked.
Want to empower those who have less? Change the criteria to economic, and remove race from the equation.
How anybody thinks otherwise, this Skeleton can’t quite understand.
Kids from poor White schools still don’t face as much of a headwind as kids from poor Black or Latino schools. Systemic racism is still present in k-12 education, and needs to be addressed before declaring victory at the college admission level and going home.
Quite the blanket statement you’ve made there.
Who’s going home and calling it a day? Affirmative action in its previous methodology is the only way to fight systemic racism? That’s black and white, a false dichotomy.
It’s obvious that fighting discrimination with discrimination is self-defeating, but people don’t want to acknowledge when their thinking sucks. Instead the shouting just gets louder, and round and round we go.
All the while the class warfare rages on.
It’s not racism to not want different rules for different races. Make scholarships for people from underprivileged families, not from race.
Just because something is helping out a race that you want it to help out doesn’t make it free from racism.
It’s my understanding that diversity scholarships generally put those below the poverty line first.
Intention will be all over the place and it’s not just about scholarships. It’s about admission.
What it actually did was put middle class minorities in higher end colleges at the cost of middle class white kids. It did very little for anyone who couldn’t afford the costs.
Why can’t they just leave us alone?
