The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
I’d rather use a more important metric like net worth to determine whether or not someone needs help. It doesn’t matter what color your skin is if you have money.
Instead stupid people will use racist ideologies like “It’s okay to make it harder for asians to get into schools, because they all had good upbringings!” No, not all asians are smart or had good upbringings. And yes it’s racist/wrong of you to imply they did.
I get what you’re saying, and I do agree with you to an extent, but
“It doesn’t matter what color your skin is if you have money.”
That simply isn’t true even a little bit. And you more or less disproved it with the second paragraph.
Racism exists in a wide variety of formats. Being wealthy makes everything easier, but easier is a relative term. Affirmative action may not be the best answer, but there’s nothing wrong with asking the question, “how can we ensure the military leadership closely resembles the demographics of the soldiers they are leading?”
Controlled for exact same family income, there are biases against people of color. So you’re not fixing anything.