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Anonymous wrote:Republicans will be so happy when all of these race blind policies lead to 99% Asians at top schools. Lol

Bring it on, I say. If you work hard enough to outperform your peers, you deserve the top spots.

Cool! Can't wait.

Anonymous wrote:Why should a black student who has a 3.3 gpa, 1200 sat and who comes from an upper middle class background and has good extracurriculars get into better schools than a white middle class student with a 3.6 gpa, 1300 sat and good extracurriculars? This is reality to many Affirmative action should be on family income not race.

Not that I think for a minute that 3.6 students are losing spots to 3.3 students. But the reality today is that black student will get 50% of the job interviews compared to a white student with the exact same resume, just a different name.

Anonymous wrote:Republicans will be so happy when all of these race blind policies lead to 99% Asians at top schools. Lol

Bring it on, I say. If you work hard enough to outperform your peers, you deserve the top spots.

Republicans will be so happy when all of these race blind policies lead to 99% Asians at top schools. Lol

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should a black student who has a 3.3 gpa, 1200 sat and who comes from an upper middle class background and has good extracurriculars get into better schools than a white middle class student with a 3.6 gpa, 1300 sat and good extracurriculars? This is reality to many Affirmative action should be on family income not race.

Indeed.

Even more clear: Why should a black student who has a 3.3 gpa, 1200 sat and who comes from an upper middle class background and has good extracurriculars get into better schools than a Vietnamese/ Filipino/ Pakistani/ Indonesian American middle class student with a 3.6 gpa, 1300 sat and good extracurriculars?

I know my pal from Iraq checks off the white box. I don't think people from Western Asia check off Asian.

Anonymous wrote:identity politics, GOP style.

Well, to be fair, Identity Politics was indeed started by liberals.


Check your status here:

- black or African
- white
- Asian
- Hispanic
- Native American
- two or more races
- other
- in love with a tree
- polyamorous
- bisexual ambidextrous
- pansexual wiccan
- still deciding
- Brony


Each day, without fail, my middle school daughter would share some story about how another kid in her class has either switched gender or had embraced some other "form." I can no longer keep up.

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Anonymous wrote:Another waste of taxpayer money and another "oh, poor me" whine from the dumb whites.

Like "oh poor me" programs for Blacks? "Oh poor me my great great grandfather was a slave!"

No, Dear, like "Poor me, my great grandfather was a slave owner and now my boss is a woman or Black or Asian, etc and now one says Merry Christmas anymore!"

And "Oh, poor me! We spent six thousand dollars on an SAT tutor, another 3K for someone to write his college application essay and provide guidance, and another 800K on private school and my white son still didn't get into Harvard! Even after we paid for him to go on a church trip to help the pagan children!!"

This is true.

Thank goodness, White men need the tables tipped in their favor for once

Anonymous wrote:Why should a black student who has a 3.3 gpa, 1200 sat and who comes from an upper middle class background and has good extracurriculars get into better schools than a white middle class student with a 3.6 gpa, 1300 sat and good extracurriculars? This is reality to many Affirmative action should be on family income not race.

Indeed.

Even more clear: Why should a black student who has a 3.3 gpa, 1200 sat and who comes from an upper middle class background and has good extracurriculars get into better schools than a Vietnamese/ Filipino/ Pakistani/ Indonesian American middle class student with a 3.6 gpa, 1300 sat and good extracurriculars?

Anonymous wrote:They shouldn't even ASK about your color of skin.

+ ONE MILLION

Anonymous wrote:Hasn't SCOTUS already decided on the constitutionality of affirmative action? So glad taxpayer funds will be going to what's *really* important.

On the contrary.

SCOTUS actually ruled against racist AA policies, so this is just a way to make sure universities follow the law -- meaning, they don't discriminate against whites or Asians or Jews or whatever other group based on their race.

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Anonymous wrote:Hasn't SCOTUS already decided on the constitutionality of affirmative action? So glad taxpayer funds will be going to what's *really* important.

Yes screw little Johnny who got s 1600 SAT. he needs to give up his seat to Harvard because racism, right?

To little Jamal who also got a 1600? Maybe.

But you know that government can't tell Harvard who to admit, I hope.

Private institutions can do what they want. SCOTUS has articulated the standard in a recents string of cases for publics. What is the DOE doing again?

And BTW-- white parent here with a kid at TJ. The students who have a legit beef about being held to a higher standard in college admissions are Asians-- especially inIvys and STEM programs. My kid will get in to a college with a lower GPA and lower SAT that his Asian classmates.

But sure, affluent whites are being shafted.

No they can't. Do you think a restaurant can refuse to serve black customers? Or a school to admit black students? It's all prohibited by federal law under the commerce clause.

Wow. You me pack a lot of being.wrong into one sentence. Wrong on the law AND false equivalence.

Anonymous wrote:Hasn't SCOTUS already decided on the constitutionality of affirmative action? So glad taxpayer funds will be going to what's *really* important.

No - if Kennedy and a liberal Scotus member get replaced, fisher II, gratz, bakke, and all other Affirmative action cases will get flipped via a new case.

It isn't nearly as strong of a precedent as roe or almost any other "norm"

Excellent stuff - im surprised trump is doing this as he came out in support of affirmative action during the campaign.

Dept of ed is right now being sued by Princeton due to Princeton not wanted doed to release admissions data that they turned over to Doed wrt Asian quota inquiry.

Harvard and unc are facing legal action too that's currently working itself through the system.

Anonymous wrote:identity politics, GOP style.

Democrats started it! Can't fault the GOP for turning the tables.