Who else opposes race-based affirmative action?

goingmeta
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:41:31 +0000

Of course counselors won’t mention students… they won’t release that info. I just said guidance counselors “verified” it; once again, you are assuming things.

All I said was, “Counselors don’t release information like that to other students.” Once again, you need to learn how to read. Even a verification is dubious since it is, after all, releasing private information.

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The scholarships: on several tests, they ask you for your ethnicity. Your guidance counselor often gives you a list of scholarships you are eligible for. The guidance counselors at my school have never told me about affirmative action scholarships. So yes, the sentence where I mentioned scholarships, that was only through students, not guidance counselors. Once again with the semantics.

I’m beginning to think you don’t actually know what “arguing semantics” is.

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Of course there will be instances where Asians and whites get in when they shouldn’t based on their academic records. The admissions process is subjective, and some are venal. But AGAIN, we are looking at overall trends. And unlike you, I can back them up with statistics, and not bias:
[Bias and bigotry in academia](Bias and bigotry in academia)

**And what’s my bias? All I’ve been doing throughout this entire thread is just trying to get you to realize there is another side of the issue. I’m not denying that affirmative action gives advantages to minorities in university admission (that is what the link is primarily focused on). And while I may not agree with some of it --if it’s true as the link suggests-- I still recognize that other parts may still be necessary.

What I find hilarious though, is that you just drop this link in the middle of your post and behave as though you’ve just presented incontrovertible data that discredits everything I’ve said. No–this is an article from a conservative-slant media outlet, and ironically, it too is biased. What are the groups they’re looking at? White Christians and ethnic Catholics. Gee, I wonder why? Just because the link became popular on this forum doesn’t mean its assessment is all the more valid.**

Next time reply when you have evidence for what you say.

What have I asserted that required evidence?

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