Re:Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans
by interesting_att on Saturday May 16, 2015 @08:01AM
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I see some strength in your analogy, but two main differences:
1) Tax money spent on sending kids to college helps everyone, even the non-parents, since more educated people = better world. Affirmative action doesn't help Asians in any conceivable way. Does it even help society at large? No one arguing for it shows reliable data that it creates significant community benefit.
2) You can always have a child in the future if you choose to. You can't become non-Asian if you were born Asian.
Why should childless adults pay taxes that go toward a school system that educates children, despite the fact that they don't have children?
Whatever your answer to that is, it is probably closely related to the answer to the question you posed. My own interpretation is that the whole point of paying taxes and building services is to cover the larger society's needs, not simply my own needs.