(December 18, 2018 at 11:55 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(December 18, 2018 at 7:49 pm)Grandizer Wrote: 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 that the best scores don't generally mean most qualified, rather best scores often mean the most privileged in a lot of cases. That's what affirmative action is trying to address, and that's the kind of problem you keep denying because of your racial bias in favor of white people. You don't seem to like that black people have to overcome obstacles (that white people don't typically get to face) in order to be just as successful as white people.