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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:37PM (#36527089)
If some groups were so oppressed that they now put a cost on the rest of society via crime and welfare costs, fixing that will be a long term net benefit for other groups, not an expense. We can discuss the most effective way to fix it, but pretending the problem doesn't exist won't make it go away.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by forgetfreeman on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:16PM (#36528142)
"Crime and welfare costs" sounds suspiciously like a dogwhistle to white supremacist tropes around "welfare queens" and "black people are thugs". Was that intentional?
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by seneca on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:20PM (#36528171)
Accusing people of using hidden messages, intentionally interpreting their post as negatively as possible, is very against the community standards here. Please don't do that.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by forgetfreeman on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:22PM (#36529365)
I made no accusation, I am requesting clarification of the ops intent.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by sidlls on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:16PM (#36529747)
This is disingenuous. "Dogwhistle" rhetoric is a thing precisely because it is a "hidden message." It's not against community rules to point out that rhetoric is similar to dogwhistle rhetoric, especially when the comment actually is full of said rhetoric. Or it ought not be: if it is, the community rule is wrong.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:39PM (#36529873)
> Was that intentional?

Of course not. The white supremacists say that these problems are genetic in origin, not due to oppression.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:13PM (#36528710)
how is AA fixing problem of crime in inner cities?

Majority of beneficiaries from AA at Ivy League are kids of rich black people and rich immigrants from African continent

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:36PM (#36528910)
That is a valid argument against AA if you can provide the data that shows that only a minority of AA beneficiaries are descendants of oppressed blacks and that therefore the net benefit of AA on oppressed communities isn't worth the cost it puts on society. If you can show that, society benefits because it can scrap a nonworking program and replace it with one that works.

My point was that simply saying there is a cost for programs that benefit black communities is not an argument against those programs. There is a cost to all regulations. We should keep the ones that are net beneficial and discard the ones that aren't.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:40PM (#36528953)
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:45PM (#36528992)
You still haven't presented a complete argument. Reread GP about how only the net effect matters, and then read https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra....
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:49PM (#36529036)
Is 75% fraud not enough for you?

“75 percent of the black students at Harvard were of African or Caribbean descent or of mixed race. According to Professor Gates, more than two thirds of all Harvard's black students were either the children or grandchildren of West Indians or Africans and very few of Harvard's black students were the descendants of American slaves. ”

I presented facts that >75% of AA recipients have nothing to do with inner city crimes and poor blacks.

If you think this is ok, I dont agree with this, and neither does Supreme Court

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:09PM (#36529691)
> Is 75% fraud not enough for you?

Are you unable to do math? If the net effect of the fraud is -1 per person and the net effect of the non-fraud is 5 per person, is the policy net beneficial or not? You have to show net negative benefit, not >50% fraud for a complete argument.

> If you think this is ok,

I don't think this is OK. I'm actually somewhat disinclined to believe AA for college admissions is good policy, preferring earlier interventions like better schooling and childcare in these communities. I am merely explaining what a complete argument looks like.

> I dont agree with this, and neither does Supreme Court

The Supreme Court didn't rule on whether the level of fraud is OK. It ruled on whether it violates the equal protection clause. Please read more carefully, both the comments here and the Court's opinion, both of which you have failed to understand.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:37PM (#36530240)
Net benefit is not my argument, it is your argument so it is on You to provide proof that few percentage of native born Blacks at ivy league create any benefit (that exceeds the damage caused by fraudulent 75% )
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:13AM (#36530432)
> Net benefit is not my argument

Exactly. Your argument is incomplete and therefore wrong. If you were denied admission to a university you applied to, it is because you are incapable of making a complete argument, not just due to AA.

> it is on You to provide proof that few percentage of native born Blacks at ivy league create any benefit (that exceeds the damage caused by fraudulent 75% )

Why? I am not arguing for AA. Once again, please read and understand the comments.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:33AM (#36530528)
Your baseless claim that my argument is incomplete is itself without ground.

I need to see proof to be convinced that your claim has any merit

And your ad hominem attacks do not make your claim any more credible (I did go to ivy btw)

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:22AM (#36536566)
> I did go to ivy btw

One of the lesser ones, not the one you wanted if your comments are representative of your thought processes.

> Your baseless claim that my argument is incomplete is itself without ground.

All policies are evaluated based on net benefit to society. I explained why your argument didn't meet that standard. If you didn't understand it, that is your problem.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by slt2021 on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:37PM (#36544777)
Again your ad hominem and baseless assumptions are irrelevant.

Net benefit - is your made up argument.

Is this “net benefit” in the room with you right now? Perhaps you could quantify it, if you could find any

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by lern_too_spel on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:55PM (#36620065)
> Net benefit - is your made up argument.

I already explained that this is how all policies are evaluated, not on arbitrary fraud thresholds. I cannot make you understand it any more than I can make you smart enough to have been accepted at your preferred university.

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by soundnote on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:16AM (#36536422)
They don't need to be descendants of oppressed blacks specifically: The claim was that AA doesn't solve the issues of inner cities because the beneficiaries are not of low SES PRESENTLY. What their history is is irrelevant. If AA doesn't add stability to the people presently living in low income areas, it fails to solve the problem.