Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on college campuses next year.

  • @NOT_RICK
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    21 year ago

    I think there is a way to do a form of economic AA that factors in the applicant’s background in a way that doesn’t bucket them by race. It could still help historically marginalized groups without having to codify anything by race. Not saying I’m against AA, it was an important tool in partially fixing the systemic racism in America, but maybe there’s a different way of doing it?

    • snooggums
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      41 year ago

      AA worked by acknowledging systemic racism separately from economic issues, which is important when the racism is also a primary cause of economic issues when the government repeatedly destroyed black communities when they became successful.

      You can’t replace something that addresses racism by shifting it to economics. All that does is let the focus change to poor white people who also need help, but with a different solution because their economic hardships are not primarily caused by racism.

      • @NOT_RICK
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        31 year ago

        Wouldn’t the black communities that suffered the most economic injustice from racist policy benefit from an economic AA while limiting the benefit an affluent black applicant would have previously gotten over a poor Asian person, for example?

        • snooggums
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          Wouldn’t directly working to address the outcomes of racism as a whole be better than trying to make it about something else and trying to focus on the exceptions?

          • 520
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            21 year ago

            I mean the real solution here (putting some real fucking consequences on racist people in power) simply isn’t going to happen in our lifetime so as much as I can see the flaws in AA, it isn’t the worst equaliser either.

          • @NOT_RICK
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            11 year ago

            I’m not sure. I feel like it could address the outcomes of said historic racism without having rules codified by race. I admit this would benefit kids of other races that are poor through factors other than racism. Economic AA would also benefit another marginalized group, Native Americans, although I will admit that I’m ignorant to what extent AA had already benefited Native Americans.

    • chaogomu
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      21 year ago

      The thing is, the white supremacists have had their thumb on the economic scales since the beginning of the country.

      Rich white conservatives will actually spend more money making sure minorities fail, than they would earn if they worked with minorities for the common good.

      The saying is, a raising tide lifts all boats, but the conservative addition is punching a hole in the minority boat, even if it stops the overall tide, just so their boat can be higher.