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<p>Let’s backtrack a moment here, because my intentions seem to have been lost in the thickets of verbiage we are both guilty of.</p>
<p>Here is your statement:</p>
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<p>You claimed that the practice of affirmative action led to URM acceptees being presumed unworthy, later elaborating upon your point by explaining that it was being used as a justification. You then proceeded to claim that removing the practice would have saliently beneficial effects by changing the mindsets of those who felt the need to downgrade students who would have been beneficiaries of AA during the admissions process attending topflight institutions.</p>
<p>This is false; affirmative action is only the most current justification for a historical trend of denigrating African Americans’ achievements. The mindset will still exist, and another justification will be found to suit that prejudicial argument.</p>
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<p>No, they are not, and I do not agree with your original statement. That has not changed, and no rhetorical sleight of hand will alter the fact that they are quite different.</p>
<p>You did not say “there are definitely people,” first of all. If you had, then I would not have objected as strenuously as I did.</p>