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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Yes. They are specifically blaming the one or two more qualified Black people when they wouldn’t have gotten the job in the first place. The math ain’t mathin. Or consider the Abigail Fisher case, which rested on the lie she would have gotten into UT.
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Lisa Hirsch
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Mediocre white men aren't used to competing with well-qualified women and people of color, and being found less qualified than those folks.
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MonicaGoldberg
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A dentist I went to said something about it being easier for his next kid to get into college because of the anti-AA decision and I was speechless. Fellow white person, that is NOT how it works. 😳
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Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽
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Class war. Or Caste divide.
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Eric Hoffpauir
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People really underestimate how hyperselective they are as well. They see 3% acceptance rate and don't realize how good the pool is. That your kid is valedictorian and has a 1450 SAT might not even put them in the top half of applicants to a place like Harvard (without a legacy connection).
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Franklin D. Roosefella
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and legacy preferences (affirmative action for the mostly white and rich) goes totally unquestioned
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Alex Merz
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Because the mediocre people sniveling about affirmative action can't compete.
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Linda Holmes
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Moreover, if you’ve ever actually participated in hiring anybody, you know the idea that you can arrange the applicants in a line in order of how objectively qualified they are with one at the top is silly anyway. Most hiring processes involving choosing among multiple perfectly qualified people.
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Tad Suiter
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And the really "fun" thing about that logic is that one nonwhite person can take the spot that 50 different white people think they're uniquely qualified for.
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Norbizness
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34 years ago and never improved upon
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Odessa
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Because it's easier to take your anger out on a black child than it is a wealthy industrialist. At least for chuds, as they're born grovelers. Serfs the whole lot of 'em.
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Julianna
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I don’t know if there’s a way to view it, but this documentary explored this eloquently: dcdoxfest.com/films/black-...
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KevDog
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“Someone took my spot” is the eternal complaint of the mediocre.
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Piltdown Woman
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I’m not familiar with the world of the Ivy Leagues, but I get the sense that at after certain point, it comes down to luck. You have thousands of top tier applicants competing for, what, a few hundred positions? At that point, they’re probably picking based on arbitrary reasons anyway.
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LaMinx
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The irony of the Harvard lawsuit is that a “white is right” organization convinced an Asian woman to carry the suit.The logic is that spots were being held for less qualified minorities and that admission will now be considered by merit alone.She may have gone to Harvard, but she’s not too bright.
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Josh Friedman, to date not a convicted felon
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I didn't get into Penn because my dad didn't donate enough 🤷🏻♂️
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