Sounds like a good interdependent strategy.
This was always what I thought too. It seemed so obvious to me that this would be the case. But then I recall reading recently that in California, which banned AA back in the 1990s, this was not the case – schools through outreach efforts were able to achieve much better geographic diversity but not racial diversity.
Edit to add a link to a discussion of the UC amicus brief, which is where this came from: Student racial diversity falters without affirmative action, UC tells U.S. Supreme Court | EdSource
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If SCOTUS can remove Affimative Action from college campuses, do we think they can finally do the same for the Supreme Court as well?
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No, and I think that is true for both sides of the isle. Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall (who was black). Would have been a bad look to replace him with a white dude.
Brown starts out with a tarnished reputation because Biden said it would be a black woman. It makes one question if she is qualified, regardless of her qualification. Biden should have just done it without saying what he was going to do.
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Well, he did the exact same thing with his VP too, and she’s probably the least qualified VP to ever have existed… It’s hard not to criticize when about the only words he doesn’t stumble on are “I am chosing an african american woman”.
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The DFL as a whole sucks at messaging. The GoP kicks their asses in that regard IMO.
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I agree with your comment here, but the issue at hand here isn’t the messaging, it’s the message. He’s tokened in a VP and a Supreme Court Justice, along with a gay and a trans person for his cabinet… IDGAF about his messaging, it’s literally the message.
And the message is that he will bypass the most qualified candidates for the sake of racial, sexual, and inter-gender equity. It’s pure identity politics, which is AA in a nutshell.
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I guess my point is no message would have been far superior. Just do those things without talking about it first.
I think at least for Brown, that a lack of message before the nomination would not have resulted in many people thinking this was the goal. Or at least not as many people.
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The incentive to catch and punish cheaters is low. Best case the university gets a black eye and loses revenue when it kicks out students for cheating. As long as they keep a low enough profile to avoid too much attention, universities are much better off ignoring it.
Obviously, if there are reports and it gets attention they have to investigate. But the best scenario for them is still just no reports. The only motivation to proactively investigate cheating is some combination of righteous indignation and an appeal to fairness. That only goes so far most of the time.
I wish. Sotomayor is woefully unqualified. She even admitted that she is and was only picked because she was a minority…
That is fucking disgraceful. Just what I want an unqualified person making decisions at the SUPREME COURT LEVEL.
It is glaringly obvious when reading her opinions that she is multiple steps below the others in intellect.
Sotomayor doesn’t even know the difference bewtween “de facto” and “de jure”
How embarrassing even for a first-year law student.
I won’t even get into the last idiot put on the Court.
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The justices are more politicians than experts of law and logic / reason IMO.
It might be turning that way, but that is not good.
It did not used to be that way. They may have had leanings, but they were scholars in the law and met certain criteria level / pedigree.
For instance, I will never have the pedigree to be on the Supreme Court and I understand that. Not an ounce in my mind I am unqualified and never will be qualified.
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I’ve heard arguments from both sides that don’t really line up with basic reasoning and the constitution.
Would be nice if they weren’t appointed by the president. That makes them partisan by default IMO. I don’t think voting them in would be better in that regard.
Well, our entire system is fucked right now because of multiple reasons.
But, a big reason is politics is now looked at as a career path to riches when it was supposed to be an obligation to your country.
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Stealing this
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Yes. Poor white kids do better than poor black kids. At one point in NJ, they wanted per student funding to be based solely on socioeconomic metrics and not race, so poor white districts would get the same funding as poor black ones. The thing is, the poor white kids do better than poor black kids so there was pushback against this idea.
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In Texas, we take from the big rich districts and give to the poor school districts. Of course, this does absolutely nothing to make people better parents. Until we can do that, there will always be achievement gaps. Unless the Dems succeed in making us all slaves to the state.
The idea that there is a correlation between poverty and violent crime has been debunked. Poor Asians in America, they do exist, do not commit violent crime at the same rate as poor blacks.
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Poor Asians still seem to have an entrepreneurial spirit that lifts them out of poverty after 1 generation. I know that’s a generalization, but I’ve seen it over and over again.
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Isn’t that amazing.
There are two people:
One you tell them you will help them to compete with others who are privileged.
The other person you say that you will not help them to compete with others who are privileged.
Psychologically, you are telling the first that they lack capability to compete without help. The other you are telling them that they are very capable of competing. Which one believes that they are fully capable.
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