From The Guardian
So Affirmative Action is basically dead for college admissions, further dismantling Civil Rights era legislation.
Way to go, SCOTUS. /s
From The Guardian
So Affirmative Action is basically dead for college admissions, further dismantling Civil Rights era legislation.
Way to go, SCOTUS. /s
Compensated at the expense of whom though?
The taxpayers? Sure, there’s an argument for reparations and pumping money into forcing systemic change.
College students competing for a limited number of slots to schools? I’m less convinced of this, it’s a zero-sum game where if you’re admitting one person you’re denying others from that slot.
IMO there’s probably better ways you could incentivize colleges to aim for a diverse student body that would be more equitable. The goal should equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes.
Affirmative action is an opportunity, the opportunity to go to a prestigious college.
It’s not equality outcomes.
Equality of outcomes would look like UBI.
@EffectivelyHidden UBI just puts a floor on how far one can financially fall, it improves the minimum possible outcome. It does not provide equality of outcomes. Some UBI recipients will have higher incomes and more wealth than others.
Certainly a better starting place than what we have now.
The point is we’re putting the cart before the horse. We’re acting like inequality is over. But not doing anything to address the inequality that isn’t over. And one of the biggest things to help break out of cycles of poverty is education. Which is why education should be first and foremost in avenue to pursue squashing the inequality.
Have we nationalized colleges and made college education free for all American citizens. This ruling would have been common sense and received with no controversy at home. But until we do something along those lines. This is only going to make a bad situation worse and improve effectively nothing for anyone.