I love affirmative action

frrrph
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:26:47 +0000

I agree that AA should take class into account over race, but class & race intersect. From two equally competent and privileged applicants, the minority should be accepted first. And, it is not about lowering standards - it is about accepting that our society puts unequal pressure on students from different backgrounds, and in addition, needs to take the responsibility for weighing that up. A non-white, non-privileged perspective is very, very needed in academia. And I don’t believe for one second, especially given the history of Western education, that performance in school correlates to “intelligence”.