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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When Affirmative Action is removed, I worry White families might continue to feel their kids will be at a disadvantage. Going by scores alone, most elite schools will be filled with Asian American students. [/quote]

Curious why this is a worry. Because your assumption that these institutions should belong to white hands? That's the crux of all this. Someone is taking something from White kids. I would love 10 years of Asian only admits to see how that shakes out in society - for so many reasons! [/quote]

Well, yes, since the vast majority of Asians have only lived in this country for the last couple of decades.  Out-reproducing the United States and then moving here for our excellent education, doesn't entitle you to all of the spots at top schools. So yes, those spots do belong in the hands of people who have funded them for generations.[/quote]

Wow - so does the date at which your family showed up in the US determine the cut off date for which citizens get to be real citizens or fake citizens?   What if the cutoff date is the Mayflower landing and only one side of your family goes back that far, do you get partial rights?   How about Asian American immigrants who have intermarried with people with Native American heritage?  What is their status?  [/quote]

You know Asians are not the first First Generation (either in the US, or college students) applying to US colleges right now, don't you?  What gives you the right to think you are the only ones who "deserve" an education, at a specific school?  Look, you moved from one crowded continent to another, and the US is just getting more crowded - AND the US is not a Communist Society - so you are just going to have to adapt. [/quote]

Who has said asians are the only ones who "deserve" an education?  Where are you getting this stuff from?

No - I didn't move from one crowded continent to another.  My parents moved before I was born.  My kids who are the ones applying to school have no real connection with Asia.  What does my children's history have to do with their qualifications to a spot in a college?  I am just not seeing the connection.[/quote]

Unless you were the descendent of  slave or a slave-owner, you are not part of the "equity"  dialog.   Life is very Black and White.

In the meanwhile, I pulled out my money from tech stocks yesterday. Imma gonna buy some farmland next. [/quote]

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