Is tolerance intolerant?

[bennyboy]

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.

I've literally mentioned all of this, right here, in this very thread. If you can enumerate the obstacles someone has to overcome (for example, if they've been working 5 hours a day in McDonald's to help support a family, even in high school), then I'd support that. If you want to give a little boost to kids from single-parent families, or from schools where the average IQ of teachers is low, or whatever, I'm okay with that.

But there are rich black kids, too. The Obama kids are doing okay, for example: news flash, Malia's going to Harvard. I suspect they have relatively few obstacles to college approval. But they are in fact black, and they will count toward Yale or MIT's quota, if the quota is based only on racial identity. I don't think either one of us thinks Malia needs a special scholarship.

As for my racial bias in favor of white people-- then I suppose you'd have to say I'm even MORE biased toward Asians or Ashkenazy Jews, since as a demographic, their IQs, test scores and grades are better. You and Khem are never going to be able to comprehend this, but my interest is 100% in getting the best academic minds into the best places for training minds. If that means 100% of MIT students are Asian, then I'm fine with that.

Force-feeding people into the system by fiat is a particularly poor replacement for addressing those clusterfuck correlations: IQ and SAT performance, single parentage, crime, incarceration and drug-use rates in parents, lack of daycare, low IQ and academic achievement of teachers in schools, bad health care, and so on.