September 16, 2007
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affirmative action is racism
i think students should be admitted into universities based on merit rather than on the color of their skin. even if the minority black/hispanic/american.indian student doesn't get into the university of their choice, they have plenty of other options like their local community college or a lower tier university. white and asian parental units work their asses off to guide their kids correctly and raise them into studious individuals. at times, these qualified kids will lose their spots at their desired university to middle class, upperclass black/hispanics bc of affirmative action. even if accepted into the university, it's likely that they won't be able to keep up w/ the curriculum because they were unnaturally placed into an advanced environment. this isn't always the case, i'm sure some of them thrive, but that's not the point. affirmative action creates a division based on skin color and that only encourages racism. i'm done with school so it doesn't effect me, but our kids might be effected if affirmative action still exists when they are entering college. fuck affirmative action. talent, hard work and effort should be rewarded, nothing else.
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the battle of los angeles daniel-style.
amen brotha!
An argument for AA is based on mathematical probability and on an assumption that individuals' qualifications are indeed unrelated to factors such as race: Affirmative Action actually ensures that, on average, the best candidate is selected precisely because affirmative action systematically includes individuals from groups that are otherwise systematically excluded. That is, since individuals in such groups are — in the absense of affirmative action — systematically excluded, and since the groups are composed of individuals that are otherwise equal to others, such groups have a higher proportion of qualified candidates precisely because they are normally excluded. Therefore selecting candidates from the excluded groups yields, on average, a greater number of qualified individuals. Accordingly, the increased mathematical probability of generally selecting more qualified candidates from the groups targeted for affirmative action will decline as candidates are recruited from the targeted groups.
Jae
it is a game of numbers, except that without AA, it has historically shown that the excluded group wouldn't even think of applying, even when they are the best qualified. The numbers increased w/AA, enlarging the pool of prospective applicants, thereby allowing the best of the best to be chosen. I agree that nobody should be given preferential treatment, but AA is a form of outreach to target an untapped market. Once the excluded group has been identified and targeted through AA, AA process should be thrown out.
Jae
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