I post on Aff-Act a lot. I abbreviate it A-A in my flows. It is a subject of great interest, because it takes what would otherwise be random chance in life and manipulates it. And of course, present thinking on SCOTUS is making it look very much like all sorts of minority supports could be eliminated in the future because we don't need them any more.
...one's qualifications in the present are a function of one's opportunities in the past. There are very talented white children born in the lap of luxury on the upper west side of Manhattan, and there are equally talented Hispanic children born in poverty in the south Bronx. It should surprise exactly no one, except possibly Pat Buchanan and Michael Goldfarb, to learn that they will not get the same SAT scores. An affirmative action system that corrects for this lack of balance is not taking a "less qualified" person and putting her above a "more qualified" person. It is giving equally qualified people the same opportunities. This is liberalism 101, not rocket science. More...
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