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This Supreme Court is disgusting, so I’m sure affirmative action will be gone.
Wesley, how old were you when you decided that minorities were so inferior that they couldn’t get by without the help of Uncle Sam?
Lauren, as a minority, I’ve never felt minorities are inferior. There are plenty of white people who feel that way. Affirmative action is the least that the US Government can do to help minorities after the centuries of oppression minorities faced from racist people and lawmakers in this country. Of course, I’m sure you think racism no longer exists or affects people in any way.
I appreciate you putting words into my mouth, after I did the same to you. I expect as much and deserve as much.
As for the “centuries of oppression”, you can’t right the wrongs of the past by wronging new rights. All you get is a vicious cycle of vengeance. Not a single person can legitimately claim to be oppressed by something that happened before this or her birth. They don’t need social justice; they need a clinical psychologist.
Thankfully, some of us don’t have the childlike naivete to think that “racism no longer exists”. But we also don’t think racism will ever stop existing. Racism is as inevitable as greed, envy, and lust. It is a human failing and will always be with us. When we think we’ve eliminated it, we’ve merely changed the semantics under which it operates…as is proven by the last 60 years of civil rights history. Racism by the 1960s definition is fundamentally extinguished. But, because one political party needs to drive a racial wedge to gain credence and political capital, they just change the definition and move the goalposts.
Wesley, in 2020, the white people who feel minorities are inferior are the ones who think they can’t get by in life and, by virtue of their melanin, are consigned to a state of virtual serfdom despite abundant evidence of minority success. These white people, mostly urban affluent progressive, want to “help” much more because it makes them feel good…and, most importantly, makes them LOOK good. But it is predicated on a notion that the minorities can’t make it on their own. In short, the neo-liberal goal of helping through “kind” programs like affirmative action is just a modern-day equivalent of “White Man’s Burden”. Which is why we see continued multi-generational discontent from the “helped” races, who receive an tacit message of, “you cannot make it on your own”.
“ Not a single person can legitimately claim to be oppressed by something that happened before this or her birth. ”
So the inverse is also true, no one has ever been advantaged by something that happened before their birth?
Correct–unless you have the bank account to show for it, the cultural movements of the past didn’t privilege/disadvantage anyone. And even then, an heir can choose to squander or buttress that wealth. Simone Biles and Mike Lindell both got where they are through their own initiative, while no amount of oppression or privilege has trickled down benefit to the citizens of the Mississippi Delta (mostly black) or eastern Kentucky coal country (mostly white)–equally poor. The tendency to ascribe people as hierarchical positions in a social pecking order based on a few sociological characteristics, rather than seeing them as individuals with circumstances largely consequent of their own free will, only brings about…more social pecking orders and a caste-based system. The opposite of what Tocqueville saw and so admired in America.
The great Hoosier author Booth Tarkington, in his signature work “The Magnificent Ambersons” , chronicles a character whose family fortunes soar during his childhood and youth then plummet through a combination of economic misfortune and poor decision making from a gilded-era family who makes imprudent investment decisions. The young protagonist who thought he could rest on family laurels instead has to make a rough living himself, since he has nothing. The Vanderbilts and Astors (and Gates and Zuckerbergs) are the rare exception of landed gentry; most people at some point have to pull their weight to stay ahead.
Incidentally, the Vanderbilts and Astors tend to be the ones supporting these programs, which largely pit African Americans against working class whites/Asians, while the Rockefellers still hold their legacy admission status. It easy for affluent progressives to wave a banner for “oppressed” minorities when they can push short end of the stick onto another demographic group–namely first-generation immigrant Asians, who get punished despite hard work because of equality-of-outcome based quotas. All while reinforcing the notion (the DELUSION) that blacks and Hispanics need these same quotas to get ahead. What a way to leave people either resentful (the Asians and non-legacy whites) or demoralized and humiliated (the black/Hispanic beneficiaries).
“Unless you have the bank account to show for it”
I’ll take that as a yes to my question. Thanks for making my point for me, though it was a nice effort to quickly yada yada your way past that.
Some people are born on third base. Some people think they hit a triple.
Um, would appear to me in this case that minorities (Asian-Americans) have decided they need Uncle Sam to step in and force them to be admitted to Harvard.
This case is just another example of the severe rightward shift of the Trumpublican Party …
It’ll be interesting to watch Asians (many of whom are second generation and whose parents came here with nothing, but rose to middle class through entrepreneurship) who refuse to “check their privilege”. Many have no doubt begun to grow weary of being lumped in with “whiteness” by race-baiting white academics and progressives. I wonder if we’ll get to see if they lurch away from the political movement that rejects these divisive and unhelpful social remedies…by joining the trumptards. Given their shift in voting patterns between ’16 and ’20, it’s already happening.
BTW, Uncle Sam’s intervention is keeping them out. If Harvard applied race-blind admissions based on merit, the school would be 65-70% Asian, not even counting international applications.
Nope …. Harvard is a private university. Their polices have twice been approved by court cases.
What’s changed is that the Court is now filled with extremist Republican judges. Credit to the Federalist Society for their efforts on that front, and Mitch McConnell’s court-packing efforts. They’ve played the long game well to make up for their status as a permanent minority party in America.
Terrible for American democracy, but that’s of no consequence to them.
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race” … once said a very wise person