• cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought colorblind meant they couldn’t see that kid’s race. With AA, your response to racism can only be “hey that’s not the kind of racism we want!” Without AA, racism in admissions is illegal.

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      1 year ago

      Without AA, racism in admissions is illegal.

      No positive measure to counteract systemic biases are illegal.

      Hereditary admissions when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

      All the implicit systemic biases in the admission system are very much legal

      The only thing you can’t do is ensure black kids get admitted.

      If you have a system and you know its giving you biases results you can compensate for the bias, without understanding every single component bias, that’s what AA was, banning it, is sticking your head in the sand and going back to faux/real Naïvity about how system racism works.

      We might as well start asking “why do black people prefer renting?”, because as a nation we are commited to pretending to not understand that there are systemic reasons for things.

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        when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

        Black people only make up 12.6% of the population. If 80% of previous students aren’t black, then black students are heavily over-represented in the student body.