No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Stanford CS Major

Re:No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Sta... by ironfilings on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @09:10PM (#9927096)

That's nice. The rest of us are saying that racism, as a problem that exists rampantly in this society and this very valley, has consequences. One consequence is that certain demographics don't benefit as others do.

And you wanted to assume "affirmative action" had some part in this without knowing a thing about this woman. Horrible.

Please learn to stop perpetuating racism by blaming the victims. It's ignorant, disgusting, and cowardly.

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Re:No, I Am Not Lost – A Black Woman's Experience in the Sta... by cpncrunch on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @10:35PM (#9927411)

The woman is still in the class, so obviously affirmative action hasn't affected her. However it is a fact that Stanford uses affirmative action (see https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?artic... for example). I think jquery was pointing out that this affirmative action might explain the reduction in diversity after the "weeding out", which the article author mentions. It's nothing to do with racism or assuming that black people are stupid.

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