<p>Affirmative action is not a solution.</p>
<p>That’s it? Well, I should’ve have expect much anyways.</p>
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<p>A. I don’t support any racism at all
B. How does this make Affirmative Action morally justifiable?</p>
<p>You’re avoiding the fact that you can’t come up with a solution to the racism.</p>
<p>Well, for one, ending affirmative action would help stop racism. As affirmative action, is in fact, racism.</p>
<p>I. Love. Affirmative. Action
You want to know why? My mom’s Cuban. She was born there. My dad’s from Alabama. Me? I look white, brown eyes, brown hair pale skin. But guess what? According to the government, my brother and I are Hispanic. We don’t look Cuban. We look white. We basically are white. But thanks to AA, I have a better chace of getting in college than my classmates. Its 100% unfair that a white student getting the EXACT same grade and has the EXACT same EC’s and the EXACT same everything might not get accepted at the college that I get accepted at just because they are white.
Its unfair. Does it really matter how many hispanics are in your school? No. It looks better on paper though.
I love AA, its a great plus for me. Do I think its fair? Of course not. But hey, neither is life.
I just hope they get rid of it AFTER my brother goes to college so we both have an “edge” over another white person.</p>
<p>'SO WHAT?!!! The most QUALIFIED students should get in. '</p>
<p>That’s kind of a ridiculous thing to say. Colleges cannot possibly just take the most qualified students, if they did, they might end up with a class full of engineers. Which wouldn’t work out very well at all.</p>
<p>The only solution to any problem is to kill everyone involved. There, no more problems.</p>
<p>Pro race discrmination argument #17</p>
<p>“a very small number of people actually suffer from affirmative action”</p>
<p>Actually its in the many 1000’s EVERY YEAR - and that just looking at the top 20 undergrad colleges, the top 15 law schools, and the medical schools in the USA</p>
<p>Consider that U CAL Berkely in yr 2002 shows these stats: 374 applicants were admitted to Berkeley with SATs under 1000 while 3,218 applicants with 1400+ SAT scores were denied admission</p>
<p>Nearly all of the 374 classed as “minorities”</p>
<p>What racism do you speak of??? Is it the same racism that forces a disproportionate number of Arab Americans to endure “random” extra checkups and harassment every time they go to an airport? Is it the same racism that causes angry White Americans to burn Sikh/Hindu temples across the country? Is it the same racism that results in the Holocaust being satirized by major American newspapers? Is it the same racism that sanctions American officials to hang caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in the middle of national monuments in Washington DC? Is it the racism that allows white schoolboys to call Chinese children “chinks” and Mexican kids “wetbacks”?</p>
<p>It seems to me that racism is present in all levels of American society and exists in virtually every shape and form. I also think that as a very free and open nation, the United States will continue to feel its effects unless it starts promoting cultural understanding among different Americans from the ground up i.e. elementary schools. Affirmative action, reparations, quotas, etc. are not solutions but temporary fixes. Only a more economically sound country with educated citizens and responsible government officials can battle and eradicate the ills of racism permanently.</p>
<p>In the current system, there are no winners or favorites, only victims.</p>
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Okay. And how would that help end the racism that started AA racism in the first place?</p>
<p>Oh so now affirmative action is going to “end racism?”</p>
<p>CALIFORNIA has a very low passage rate for the bar exam for blacks - I suppose they should setup a special exam, otherwise more “racism” will continue</p>
<p>What is the root of all differentiation, of all discrimination?
First, one must find the solution to ignorance itself. And how is this to be conducted? By means no less of divine intervention.</p>
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<p>"Pro race discrmination argument #17</p>
<p>“a very small number of people actually suffer from affirmative action”</p>
<p>Actually its in the many 1000’s EVERY YEAR - and that just looking at the top 20 undergrad colleges, the top 15 law schools, and the medical schools in the USA</p>
<p>Consider that U CAL Berkely in yr 2002 shows these stats: 374 applicants were admitted to Berkeley with SATs under 1000 while 3,218 applicants with 1400+ SAT scores were denied admission</p>
<p>Nearly all of the 374 classed as “minorities”</p>
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<p>Only 374 of the applicants with 1400+ SAT scores suffered from affirmative action, not all 3218 applicants. If the 374 accepted applicants were not minorities and scored 1400+, 2844 (or 88%) of the other applicants obviously would have been rejected with or without affirmative action. Therefore, only 12% of the non-URM applicants actually suffered from AA.</p>
<p>pwn d</p>
<p>Who said that AA acceptees were limited to below 1000 SAT, there are many more that would fit the below 1100 category or and additional ones below the 1200 category - in either case very low by BERKELEY standards</p>
<p>Affirmative action is a form of racism, and it is w/o a doubt creating a permanent underclass and stigmatizing the very groups it purportedly is helping</p>
<p>Assuming blacks cannot compete on the merits is a huge mistake. That’s part of the reason CALIFORNIA ended up shelfing the idea a few decades back of adding points to black bar applicant’s exams (since they historically have had a very low bar passage rate in CAL) - as the various black atty professional organizations stopped the plan - as they would forever be tagged as gaining bar admission via a handout even though they did in fact make it on the merits</p>
<p>It will be a very sad day if and when medical board exams and bar exams are influenced by affirmative action.</p>