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[W:148] Affirmative Action promotes systemic racial discrimination.

Pure racism. I call on everyone to dispute this hate. It is poison. And anti American,
what is anti American is telling kids who had nothing to do with slavery and whose ancestors might well not have come to America until after the 14th amendment, that they are being denied entry into a prestigious university because someone with a different skin color-with much lower scores, has to be compensated for something that may or may not have happened to their ancestor(s) over a century ago
 
Now what do you suppose made their original conditions so bad the whole country had to be inconvenienced into and by Affirmative Action?
the country did not have to be subjected affirmative racism
 
what is anti American is telling kids who had nothing to do with slavery and whose ancestors might well not have comets America until after the 14th amendment, that they are being denied entry into a prestigious university because someone with a different skin color-with much lower scores, has to be compensated for something that may or may not have happened to their ancestor(s) over a century ago
You don't really have to look at the history. Entry to colleges is supposed to be based on merit, and there's a spectrum from community colleges to elite universities, so people should just go to whatever level of school they can get into based on merit. If the top universities have a lot of Asian-Americans based on merit, so be it. Every institution doesn't have to have a racial mix which matches society. And no one has a 'right' to get into any particular university. A majority of Americans don't even have a college degree, and not every job requires one.
 
what is anti American is telling kids who had nothing to do with slavery and whose ancestors might well not have comets America until after the 14th amendment, that they are being denied entry into a prestigious university because someone with a different skin color-with much lower scores, has to be compensated for something that may or may not have happened to their ancestor(s) over a century ago
Do you think that there is a white team in America and they are harmed by helping other Americans. The majority of Americans are mixed race. You are harming our country.
 
You don't really have to look at the history. Entry to colleges is supposed to be based on merit, and there's a spectrum from community colleges to elite universities, so people should just go to whatever level of school they can get into based on merit. If the top universities have a lot of Asian-Americans based on merit, so be it. Every institution doesn't have to have a racial mix which matches society. And no one has a 'right' to get into any particular university. A majority of Americans don't even have a college degree, and not every job requires one.
when Harvard law was adding .5 to the GPA of every black-rich or poor and 130 (on the 800 point scale) to the LSAT score of all blacks, it was pretty much blatant nonsense. It was purely biased. go ahead and try to justify that.
 
Do you think that there is a white team in America and they are harmed by helping other Americans. The majority of Americans are mixed race. You are harming our country.
just stop with that idiocy. I am not harming America by pointing out it is poisonous to subject blacks to the racism of lowered expectations while discriminating against far higher achieving applicants who did NOTHING to deserve being discriminated against .
 
just stop with that idiocy. I am not harming America by pointing out it is poisonous to subject blacks to the racism of lowered expectations while discriminating against far higher achieving applicants who did NOTHING to deserve being discriminated against .
You are perpetuating the idea that Americans are divided into teams based on race and competing. That is the root of racism and the poison that we must remove.
 
when Harvard law was adding .5 to the GPA of every black-rich or poor and 130 (on the 800 point scale) to the LSAT score of all blacks, it was pretty much blatant nonsense. It was purely biased. go ahead and try to justify that.
There's no justification, it was indeed nonsense. Bad for Harvard, bad for blacks who know they didn't really get into Harvard on merit, and bad for society because an elite institution didn't accept the best pool of students.
 
You are perpetuating the idea that Americans are divided into teams based on race and competing. That is the root of racism and the poison that we must remove.
you apparently are ignorant of the fact that some people are discriminated against based on race and are denied things they earned above those who didn't. That is racism. You ignore the fact that if you are denied something you are more meriting than someone else based on your race, that is the epitome of RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
 
you apparently are ignorant of the fact that some people are discriminated against based on race and are denied things they earned above those who didn't. That is racism. You ignore the fact that if you are denied something you are more meriting than someone else based on your race, that is the epitome of RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
You are dividing Americans into teams based on race. That is racism.
 
you apparently are ignorant of the fact that some people are discriminated against based on race and are denied things they earned above those who didn't. That is racism. You ignore the fact that if you are denied something you are more meriting than someone else based on your race, that is the epitome of RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Your love and compassion for African Americans is very inspiring. Ever do any philanthropic work for/with the NAACP?
 
You are dividing Americans into teams based on race. That is racism.
bullshit-the dividing is being done by the institutions which discriminate against the better qualified based on race. you are supporting active racial discrimination. Not me
 
bullshit-the dividing is being done by the institutions which discriminate against the better qualified based on race. you are supporting active racial discrimination. Not me
I don't believe that is actually happening. Just because our country is becoming more integrated do you think the white team is losing?
 
You are perpetuating the idea that Americans are divided into teams based on race and competing. That is the root of racism and the poison that we must remove.

If that's what you took from what he wrote, that's pure nonsense.
 
I don't believe that is actually happening. Just because our country is becoming more integrated do you think the white team is losing?

what is with this psychobabbling about the white team? The fact is this-white and Asian students with much higher objective qualifications have been passed over based on racially discriminating reasons. You support that. I do not
 
If that's what you took from what he wrote, that's pure nonsense.
Yeah, he seems to be posting about something that has nothing to do with what I said. He clearly thinks that it is permissible for higher achieving whites and Asians to be denied entry into elite universities in favor of those with much lower scores-merely due to race.
 
I don't believe that is actually happening. Just becauseour country is becoming more integrated do you think the white team is losing?

Based on everything he has espoused on this subject prior to and now, he believes the country has become more divided based on racial identity politics.
He thinks that the quality of the person is more important than anything else. You, what do you believe is the most important qualifier?
 
what is with this psychobabbling about the white team? The fact is this-white and Asian students with much higher objective qualifications have been passed over based on racially discriminating reasons. You support that. I do not
I just don't believe that is happening. I see the results of integration though out the educational system and our economy and is obviously a good thing. Don't you agree?
 
Your love and compassion for African Americans is very inspiring. Ever do any philanthropic work for/with the NAACP?
To be fair, if African Americans want to get into elite universities and elite jobs, they need to earn it on merit. No one should ever be viewed as having an entitlement to anything elite, and quotas for such things would do a disservice to blacks who did actually deserve to get in based on merit, because everyone would be looking at them thinking they may just be a token, and they may be looking at themselves thinking that they're maybe just a token.
 
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