Is tolerance intolerant?

[bennyboy]

Yeah, we're reading it differently, but it's pretty clear what the authors are saying here. You just choose to read it the way you want to suit your own position. Affirmative action doesn't mean that a couple token black students should be chosen irrespective of whether they're academically qualified or not.

Of course it means that. If not, you'd just have the rule I suggested-- that the students with the best scores are accepted to the best schools.

The problem is the racial inequality that was/is observed when it comes to such things as college admissions because of the social and political obstacles blocking the way to a fair access. Hence, race-based affirmative action. And hence the conclusion of the study, which I don't think you fully grasped, if at all.

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Affirmative action does not mean what you think it means, lol. There can be no affirmative action for the white majority (and Khem correctly points out why). What happened in the case of the Harvard incident was the opposite of affirmative action. It was discrimination against a racial minority group. Unfortunately, the media in general has opted to spin it as a problem with affirmative action itself, which is really infuriating.

Of course there can't be affirmative action for the white majority. I was making fun of that position, not asserting it.

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No, Benny.....lol....it's not "basically affirmative action for the white majority".  The white majority doesn't have a history of being racially discriminated against.  It is, accurately, and as was pointed out to you..an example of exactly why affirmative action exists.

You derps are so used to fighting against me that you don't know when I'm agreeing with you.