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[quote=Anonymous]Everyone justifying the affirmative action for sports by saying the kids have to work so hard and spend so much time at their sport be at that level forget that kids in other activities and and interests spend just as  be much time as the athletes but no one is reserving and setting aside spots for the advanced theatre kids, robotics kids, debate travelers, the kids like me that played sports AND worked a job to pay for my sports equipment.

Most kids in the DC area who play sports also have the money and means to play. It’s an industry. Amherst College has roughly the same amount of athletes as the University of Alabama.

Lacrosse costs $$$$ to play. It’s hardly a blue collar sport. Tennis?  $$$$. Fencing? $$$$. Gymnastics?  $$$$. Hockey used to be more of an accessible sport but that has become part of the affluent club/travel sport culture.

Rowing?  $$$$  Sailing $$$$  The list is long and has produced an industry of parents and kids spending time and money hoping it’ll get them into the shorter line to college.

Everyone screams about DEI and affirmative action when the original affirmative action has always been wealth, class, influence, race, gender, and legacy with things like sports allowing some without tremendous wealth to get a leg up. Colleges were originally for white, wealthy or wealthy enough land owning Christian men. There is a reason we had the Ivies and the Seven Sisters. Harvard, Yale, etc. all started hundreds of B years ago to educate certain men. Sometimes they let a Jewish man attend or a Black man. But the seats were reserved for a certain class and type of white man. Just like the country clubs.

Women set up their own colleges or seminaries. Black men and women set up theirs. Jewish people set up theirs too. Eventually the old WASPy mainline schools let in men and women who they had previously kept out but they never really discussed or addressed how their original structure affirmatively helped the groups they served not have to compete with large portions of the population. It created a lot of fragility on the part of the originally favored groups and, rather than admit that their group benefited for 100s of years from not having to compete with smarter but less wealthy men, women, nonwhite, nonWASP/Christian people, they started screaming and pointing at the groups that looked different were why you can’t get in. [/quote]

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