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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes you people so sure your kid would have been next on the list? At the cut line, there are hundreds of applicants who are very close in qualifications. None of them are undeserving but [u]none of them are entitled to a spot[/u] either. There are other schools and if your kid is all you think he/she is, he/she will do well with a degree from any of them. It’s only the parents who can’t imagine life without Harvard or Yale or Princeton or Stanford. [/quote]

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Nobody ever said they were entitled. But in many cases their grades and scores would have taken them in that direction, but AA policies instead favored lower-scoring blacks. So why are black kids with lower grades ENTITLED? Any why can't the poorer-scoring black kids go to some other school? You people seem to be saying that 3rd tier universities are good enough for poor white Billy from the housing projects, even with his A- average, and yet Daeshanda should go to Ivy with her B+. Why not just turn it around: Let the better student go to the better school, and the so-so student go to the lesser university? 
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As soon as we have a level playing field that'd be fine. But today in 2019 we still have white supremacists proudly marching the streets. We have a POTUS who hesitates to disavow them. We have harsh backlash to BLM. We have people still worshipping Confederate war heros and the flag. We have systematic racism / implicit bias.

We are not ready for that. If a handful of white people have a slightly less optimal outcome? That's a price I'm willing to pay. Sorry, Billy.

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I'm not going to argue with you about the POTUS disavowing the fringe element of white supremacists, since he clearly did that and you in your liberal fog refuse to acknowledge it.

But, to get this straight, you say that you are willing to send all the Billys (poor white kids from the housing projects who, despite their hardships, managed to get all As) to community college or a lesser school because that is a price YOU are willing to pay? Such a liberal. You guys are willing to pay for anything as long as it is not you personally paying the price. So generous.

All I can say is thank god that my parents went to college before AA was in effect. They both had after-school jobs that got that home at MIDNIGHT to help pay the family's bills, and still managed to ace their college admissions tests. I shudder to think how different their lives would have been if they had been shut out of college because Dashanda, who did much worse academically, was seen as deserving a chance - and the whites weren't.[/quote]

I said he HESITATED to disavow. Which was 100% accurate.

Why do you think that every.single.poor.white.kid won't go to college because they are "losing their spots" to URMs? How many Billys do you think there are? How many kids are [i]actually[/i] affecting by AA? What is the real-life impact? Not another hypothetical med student that doesn't exist. You'll need to account for all of the rich white kids who scored a tiny bit higher than Billy but also didn't get in. And all of the URMs who did score higher than him.

I am perfectly fine if my kids go to a "lesser" school (even community college) if that means more URMs can go to an elite college. They will be fine.

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I'm SO SURE you will be fine if you kids, who earned all As, are relegated to community college (you should walk around there.....kids are carrying remedial English books and Alegebra I books), so that Dashanda with her Bs can go to a good university.

P.S  Maybe you should ask your kids if they'd be willing to go community college instead of a good four-year university so Dashanda can take their slots. Maybe they feel differently about your being so willing to sacrifice their futures for your liberal ideals that punish whites.[/quote]

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