Barring unforeseen circumstances, which are possible given I live in a rapidly declining empire, I will retire exactly 13 months from today, but whose counting?
YES! I, too, would be thrilled to see all DEI funding disappear. I'll also be over the moon when Affirmative Action - which has been shown to do exactly nothing to further the economic interests of actual black people - disappears along with it. Programs whose sole function is to make white people feel special SHOULD be shit-canned, and all that money should go to under-funded schools in poor communities and social programs that actually offer concrete help to economically marginalized communities.
I support affirmative action..but not race based,rather,class based.That’s what MLK wanted, even though people don’t remember that now.There are a lot of middle and upper middle class blacks now and a lot of poor whites who can’t catch a break.If affirmative action were done on the basis of income,and extended to every low income person in every race and minority,people wouldn’t hate the idea so.
I think that's true, politically speaking. The trouble, though, is that AA students, regardless of race, often come from shitty schools that fail to prepare them for college, which means they often do poorly once they get there.
Then there's the issue of cost and debt: poor students, also regardless of race, suffer most when state funding and scholarships are cut, tuitions skyrocket, and Pell Grants are replaced with loans.
I'm an academic myself, and I've seen this situation get worse and worse and worse over the years, to the point that college is quickly becoming an impossible burden for working class kids, with or without AA.
This concept of "consequences" is intriguing, and now that you have me thinking about it, I can't let go! So hypothetically, keeping millions of young children from socializing to anything like a normal degree for a year or longer, that could have negative consequences? And keeping struggling students out of their struggling schools, that could have repercussions that ripple outwards forever?
Truly, this whole cause and effect, actions have consequences, theory is mind boggling. I hope one day it could be studied so as to see if it has any real world implications.
YES! I, too, would be thrilled to see all DEI funding disappear. I'll also be over the moon when Affirmative Action - which has been shown to do exactly nothing to further the economic interests of actual black people - disappears along with it. Programs whose sole function is to make white people feel special SHOULD be shit-canned, and all that money should go to under-funded schools in poor communities and social programs that actually offer concrete help to economically marginalized communities.
Good luck with that, though, huh?
I support affirmative action..but not race based,rather,class based.That’s what MLK wanted, even though people don’t remember that now.There are a lot of middle and upper middle class blacks now and a lot of poor whites who can’t catch a break.If affirmative action were done on the basis of income,and extended to every low income person in every race and minority,people wouldn’t hate the idea so.
I think that's true, politically speaking. The trouble, though, is that AA students, regardless of race, often come from shitty schools that fail to prepare them for college, which means they often do poorly once they get there.
Then there's the issue of cost and debt: poor students, also regardless of race, suffer most when state funding and scholarships are cut, tuitions skyrocket, and Pell Grants are replaced with loans.
I'm an academic myself, and I've seen this situation get worse and worse and worse over the years, to the point that college is quickly becoming an impossible burden for working class kids, with or without AA.
Great observations as usual, my friend!
This concept of "consequences" is intriguing, and now that you have me thinking about it, I can't let go! So hypothetically, keeping millions of young children from socializing to anything like a normal degree for a year or longer, that could have negative consequences? And keeping struggling students out of their struggling schools, that could have repercussions that ripple outwards forever?
Truly, this whole cause and effect, actions have consequences, theory is mind boggling. I hope one day it could be studied so as to see if it has any real world implications.