Affirmative Price Tags

[greenwitch]

@ucbalumnus - what this stunt reminded me of was two different episodes in the past. One, where a gun group wanted to “educate” the public about open carry laws in Virginia so they showed up at the local Starbucks exuberantly openly carrying and people were frightened and called the police. (this was wonderfully spoofed later by Wyatt Cenac).

In the other incident a woman who had converted to Islam insisted on being a volunteer reader for children at a local library while wearing a full face, head, and body covering - the kind that is all black with a little mesh over the eyes - and the children, who hadn’t seen a full face covering before, were frightened. She said she wanted to “educate” the children and their parents about Islam.

When people say they want to educate others in this way I just don’t believe them! It doesn’t seem to be about discourse at all. Just like the insulting cookies.

[emilybee]

I think these students aren’t very smart and none of them should have been accepted to UIC.

[roethlisburger]

@musicprnt but if you pointed out that that is what the elite schools were doing to keep the school balanced in various ways, they would say “that is different”, or they would defend legacy admissions and such as being important to the school, when studies of legacy kids show many of them are below the typical admit line for non legacies.

The argument that whites are overrepresented as legacies won’t hold water for much longer. Elite schools have been admitting diverse classes for the past 20+ years, and those classes should be near the age where their kids are college age. At that point, the legacy applicants will be just as racially/ethnically diverse as the general population.

[roethlisburger]

@musicprnt also wonder if they know about what some call ‘white affirmative action’, where elite schools like the ivies, Stanford and so forth, limit the number of Asian kids coming in and admit a lot of white kids who don’t have the stats the Asian kids did. I would bet if you asked them why they thought that black and hispanic kids were there because of affirmative action, they would cite some statistics that show the typical black or hispanic student had lower stats then whites…but if you pointed out that that is what the elite schools were doing to keep the school balanced in various ways

I’m not sure what your argument is here. Are you saying admissions should be purely based on stats? Or are you saying Asians are discriminated against in how their essays and interviews are scored? Or are you saying affirmative action doesn’t exist at elite universities because blacks and Hispanics compensate for lower stats by doing better on essays, ECs, and interviews than whites and Asians?

[roethlisburger]

@musicprnt
From the article, so they are protesting discrimination against Asian Americans.

But “what we do know is that Asian Americans will be charged the most, followed by Caucasians, followed by Hispanic/Latinos, followed by African-Americans.”

[Gourmetmom]

My son’s high school had a reverse to this bake sale recently where white males were charged twice what females and minorities were charged for the same thing. It was intended to make the white males feel the sting of what it’s like to be discriminated against. I’m not sure how effective it was, since the white teenage boys had the choice to not buy anything at all, which is what most did. I think it’s good to bring awareness about discrimination, however, I’m not sure it’s effective to punish the other group to make a point.

[SugarlessCandy]

It’s a good thing that our youth is thinking about these issues and using peaceful ways to express different point of views. Being able to make your opinion heard and to listen to opposing views with tolerance is what us “adults” need to practice as well.