Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by scarmig on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:21PM
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That's missing the point: how does giving person A preferential access to college recompense person B who is distinct from person A?
As far as legacy admissions go, they're noxious, but you're not accounting for the ~99% of people who don't have that privilege.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by mcphage on Thursday June 29, 2023 @04:48PM
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> the ~99% of people who don't have that privilege
What percentage of accepted students have that privilege? It's pretty high.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by scarmig on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:12PM
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That's irrelevant, though, when you're talking about the vast majority of people who apply who don't get accepted because of those factors. Telling someone "you're privileged because a child of a Kennedy gets a leg up in going to Harvard and shares your skin color, even though you don't get that same leg up" is ridiculous, to say nothing of Asians who are discriminated against despite having relatively few legacies.
Near the top of this thread one specific "how" was discussed.
Legacy admissions are affirmative action which offers preferential access based on ancestry. If your parents, your grandparents, or anyone of their race was (legally at the time) forbidden from attending, how else would you have representation in that process?
Affirmative action is an artificially generated membership in the "belongs at this institution" club for people who may otherwise be excluded.