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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Affirmative action excesses pushed some white moderates into the evil camp.  Block a man from getting hired or promoted, and you risk radicalizing him.  Block a kid from getting into college, a you risk radicalizing his mother.[/quote]

Please say more about that!  “Block” in what way?  Are you assuming that the man who didn’t get promoted or the kid who didn’t get into college some how earned or deserved it more than those who did? Let’s hear about the data and actual documented practices— instead of vague grievances and resentments.

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Um, yes.  Affirmative action gives less qualified candidates a leg up if they are members of favored ethnic groups.    Which means that more qualified candidates can be blocked if they are members of a disfavored ethnic group.  That’s what it is and how it works.  But I see that YOU are a member of the most special group of all-the wokerati.  The latest version is that we have to do the affirmative action AND pretend that we didn’t actually do it!  [/quote]

No, it doesn’t do that at all — which is why you provided verbal diarrhea instead of data. 
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DP.  Yes it does.  Look at the SAT scores of admitted Harvard students by demographic.  Look at the LSAT scores of admitted Harvard students by demographic.  Then look at other schools.  Etc.

For a long time, we said that this was the right thing to do.  And at the time, it was.  The question is, are we at a right time to change this?  Some are saying yes.  A lot of people, actually.  Whether it is or not, we are doing it.  We are saying it is not the right thing to do anymore.  And we will see what happens.  (I can understand the arguments from both sides.  For a test case, though, I can look at Minnesota in the 90s and Minnesota today and say that then, with explicit affirmative action and proactive steps to integrate, was better than now, without, where self-segregation has lead to actual segretation.)[/quote]

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