RIotingPacifist

Great bar, terrible toilets, you'd think that in 107 years they'd have renovated them or something.

Funny how we addressed the tool that helped black kids first, rather than the one that hurt them.

Maybe it's because this is being pushed by bad people, that you seem to agree with under some fantasy of "100% merit based" reality.

Systemic biases exist, AA compensated for them banking AA is basically pretending this nation isn't racist AF.

Without AA, racism in admissions is illegal.

No positive measure to counteract systemic biases are illegal.

Hereditary admissions when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

All the implicit systemic biases in the admission system are very much legal

The only thing you can't do is ensure black kids get admitted.

If you have a system and you know its giving you biases results you can compensate for the bias, without understanding every single component bias, that's what AA was, banning it, is sticking your head in the sand and going back to faux/real Naïvity about how system racism works.

We might as well start asking "why do black people prefer renting?", because as a nation we are commited to pretending to not understand that there are systemic reasons for things.

Sure buddy, and if you're too stupid to get into any college you might believe both those have the same chance of happen 🤣

Fine the mental gymnastics is to justify why hereditary admission criteria are more acceptable to you not "good"

Yes the white kid does.

• The racial biases of whoever runs the admission system
• The racial biases of teachers at the school
• The white kid is still more likely to benefit from hereditary admission and insider information on how to do well in admission tests/letter.

To pretend a white kid in a predominantly black school doesn't have an advantage in "colorblind" admissions is to deny the existence of systemic racism.

You can never change who your parents are, that's some real mental gymnastics to justify how hereditary acceptance criteria is good actually, but using race to identify those underservered by k-12 education, lacking in family connections, not having knowledge of college specific tricks to getting accepted & generally having less resources available to do the extra-ciricular activity to get in, and compensate for that bias is bad.

Affirmative action is only silly if you don't accept that systemic racism exists.

But asking them who their father is is fine?

If people gave a shit about fairness they'd care about legacy admission more than affirmative action.

Yes, my dog will be grumpy if he doesn't get a good night's sleep.

I disagree that defederation shouldn't be taken lightly, if it looks at all like a nazi instances, scalp & move on.

linux

Fuck that, I don't want to give Nazis a safe space to organize and spread their hate.