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Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by xya3453 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:41AM (#16232143)
In an alternative universe, Chad is a poor white boy who lives at home with his single mother and three siblings. He's studious but attends a bad public school, he works after school to help out at home, he takes care of his little brothers and sisters. In this universe Keycia is a black girl from an upper middle class family. She's also studious and also attends a public school but a good one with AP/IB classes, dual credit and so on. She doesn't work but she does play on one of the best lacrosse teams in the state and also swims.

Now, with diversity initiatives that are geared against Chad and in Keycia's favour, who's got a better chance of getting into Stanford?

Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by frgtpsswrdlame on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:54AM (#16232292)
Sure! But that's an argument for more complex diversity initiatives (race, gender, AND poverty) which I'm totally fine with.
Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by kthejoker2 on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:57PM (#16241873)
I'm perfectly happy for Stanford to only be allowed to educate poor students with a racial population proportional to the US at large.