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Biden condemns ruling against race-conscious admissions: ‘This is not a normal court’ – live (www.theguardian.com)

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US president says ‘the court once again walked away from decades of precedent’, as Democrats decry supreme court’s affirmative action ruling

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you are considering race as part of a college admissions, then you are NECESSARILY racist.

But, in reality, AA was there to balance the racial diversity. Living in Asia I'm seeing that university exams are exploited by a rich families here who know how the system works. Rather than evaluating the applicants' academic abilities and potentials, the system usually evaluates the family supports like financial power.

The paper tests are hacked, meaning that too many applicants reach the maximum score practically possible. What then gets to the stage is wealthy participants' personal project to save the society, supported by their rich family. This works effectively because such a project can be bought by money and shows that the kid can follow through with their aim.

I imagine that AA in the US had been a way to contain these hacks and provide education to more diverse people. It was a notorious tool, but I imagine that it helped enroll more Black people into higher education.

If universities did a fair examination, the racial balance should be established anyway. As the balance is heavily skewed by hacks, it makes sense to re-balance the race to what it should be.

And that brings us to the REAL problems- that a lot of minority applicants come from poor neighborhoods with bad primary education, crap high schools full of gangs and drugs, and few resources like books and computers and other opportunities to excel. And THAT is the problem we should be fixing.

Yes, but education is indeed a supreme fix for those problems.