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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But there are a lot of ingredients to *success* besides hard work, such as:

- willingness to take risks,
- thinking outside the box, and
- good social skills [/quote]

- willingness to take risks: translation - always have families to fall back on => advantage, rich white people
- thinking outside the box: translation - always have families to worry about "inside the box" for you => advantage, rich white people
- good social skills: translation - always have family ties to build on the 'social skills' => advantage, rich white people

no, it's not about which races have which qualities.[/quote]

Racism is alive and well.  [/quote]

ITA. I'm totally for affirmative action, if that's what the first PP thinks she's arguing for. Affirmative action is great when it helps kids who come from families who can't afford to live in a neighborhood with good public schools, who can't help them with the algebra and english homework. But the sort of general whining above, especially when it doesn't make much sense, hurts instead of helps the cause of affirmative action.[/quote]

Ooops, I meant the second PP. The SECOND PP makes no sense and is hurting whatever argument she thinks she's supporting.[/quote]

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