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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just out of curiosity, was this move because the current administration is trying NOT to emphasize immutable characteristics as defining excellence?  Of course race, gender, etc... exist, but why not simply focus on their achievement first?

The idea of "people who look (or are) like me" is a bit of a relic of the past.  Today, there are no legal barriers to opportunity for high-achievement.  There is only a person's desire to be excellent.[/quote]

I’m curious - do you really believe that the only ceiling to people’s achievement is their own desire to be excellent? Research shows people are still biased in all sorts of ways and act on that bias. It also shows that most people’s employment, income, education, incarceration status, is highly correlated with factors we don’t choose like socio economic status, race, and gender. Is it that you think people just don’t value things like education, money, and staying free enough to accomplish those things? Or do you believe social science is a bunch of hooey? [/quote]

But that goes to the heart of of affirmative action and emphasizing people's immutable characteristics as a basis for group discrimination.  Individual cases of discrimination do still exist, but systemic discrimination does not.[/quote]

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