Is tolerance intolerant?

[bennyboy]

Sure Benny, that must be it.  

It couldn't possibly be that people who tell you.."no, it's not basically affirmative action" might actually be disagreeing with you about how it's basically affirmative action.  You've already cashed in you "haha, jk, I was making a funny" chips with me, on this subject.  You weren't..you were expressing an opinion that you have expressed many times and in countless other ways, and followed it up with the usual invocations of hypocrisy.  You were asserting the position, just stop.

Nope, you're wrong about this, and while I was making fun of that scenario, I don't particularly think it's funny.  The idea that Asian students need to be cleared away to give white people a chance is hypocritical-- because they want to deny black applicants on one side because "we earned it, why should we give up our spot?"  What about the Asian students who also "earned it?"

Why shouldn't MIT consist of 50% Asian students, if those are the best students available?  Or, in short, what's good for the goose is good for the gander-- those who would deny black applicants on the basis of tests or academic performance should also be willing to step aside when THEY are found relatively lacking in those regards.

See?  You think I'm just racist against black people.  But that was never it-- I want to see REAL equality, across the board, applied equally to all citizens.  That's my absolute caveat-- that you need to make rules that, while they might differentially benefit certain groups, do so only implicitly.

One point is one I've already stated-- student applications should be done blind-- ID #s instead of named application with "race" and "gender" checkboxes (if they still even have those).