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US supreme court strikes down affirmative action
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Not sure what you're trying to say here. Historically minority groups (specifically black and Hispanic) have been underrepresented in higher education. Affirmative action was supposed to help make higher education racially represent the population at large. Many minority groups are disadvantaged from a young age in terms of education in the USA so collecting data on race of applicants was supposed to help normalize people's racial background. If I grew up in a predominantly well funded schools my exam scores will likely be higher than a student who grew up in a poor school district. The effects of segregation, racism, and xenophobia in the USA have led to a racial divide between many local school districts in the USA. The whites who have historocally had more money have better funded schools. Without knowing where someone came from it is harder to judge how good their respective scores are. Odviously there are still ways to do this but the supreme court removed a legally required one.
So racism now should be okay because racism in the past was okay? Racism is still racism, and racism is still bad.
I think we can all agree racism is bad. The point of affirmative action was to help those who are victims of past racism. As I said, minority groups tend to live in localized areas and have historocally had less financial resources and because of this suffer from worse education and less connections to people who have gone to college before. Collecting racial data was a way to normalize test results and make up for lack of college prep knowledge for disadvantaged students. Collecting this data also forces schools to be aware of thier unconscious bias. AA was introduced to combat racism in college selections, I don't think we will slip back to as bad as it was, but i think a new program should have been implemented before rejecting this one.
And now it's time to get rid of it, because racism shouldn't justify racism. Racism in the past shouldn't justify racism today. Racism towards one group shouldn't justify racism towards a different group. "Reverse" or "positive" racism doesn't exist, it is just plain old racism you try to justify to yourself.
I'm not sure how affirmative action is racist.
Prejudice - why do people of certain color need more handholding? Are you saying they are not as capable because of their race?
Discrimination - if you prop up one group over others, you are discriminating others. If you do it solely based on their skin color, that is racist.
Prejudice - (preconceived opinions not based on reason or actual experience) students with better SAT scores will perform better in college. There's no evidence to support this and it is still a major deciding factor in college admissions.
Discrimination - (unjust treatment of different categories of people) the argument over what is "just" treatment will likely never end. I believe it is unjust that primary school districts in the USA can vary wildly in quality.
Okay, so lets come up with something different than SAT since we are unable to keep the same goal for everyone... based on their race
Thank you for recognizing that poor caucasians and asians also exist, and that rich black people exist.