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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
I'm interested in understanding how affirmative action is even in the same category as reparations. fantASTic?
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In this day and age, it's non-monetary reparations (except, of course, in the form of scholarships, in which case it IS monetary reparations). White students and black students go to the same schools, take the same tests and have the same opportunities. My black neighbor in high school had no disadvantages in society - his parents were both dentists, for Christ's sake. Yet, he got preferential admission over me. How is that NOT a form of reparation?
Even if you can possibly find a way to claim that he somehow deserved that, how is it that now POST-graduate schools are allowing this? Medical schools are giving preferential admission - sorry, but when a kid went to my same college, had the same classes, same professors, same EVERYTHING as me, she has no right to get preferential admittance, especially to such competitive areas as medical schools and graduate schools.
When all other factors are essentially equal, affirmative action is more of a reparation than an equalizer - what are you equalizing?
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