RE: Is tolerance intolerant?
December 25, 2018 at 10:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2018 at 10:25 pm by GrandizerII.)
(December 25, 2018 at 7:06 pm)bennyboy Wrote: When you're looking at causality, you have to decide what scope to focus on. Obviously, if some dude gets arrested, and his kid has no dad around, this puts the kid at a disadvantage-- that's the dad's fault.
Depends on why they got arrested.
Quote:However, if you consider that the dad had no clear path to success, because of a lack of education-- then ultimately, it must go toward the bad handling of the abolition of slavery, or to the fact of slavery itself.
Or it must be because of indirect and subconscious discrimination that is still happening to this day, and loads of studies show this to be the case.
Quote:But you think the main driver is active racism, and that simply isn't true.
That you assert something does not make it true, privileged white dude.
Quote:Do you think colleges wouldn't be absolutely thrilled if a black Einstein showed up? Of course they would.
But black Einstein isn't the problem here. Facepalm.
Quote:Here, look at this: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.or...-questions
Among those questions, please tell me which ones are intrinsically biased against black people? I'm not seeing a lot of questions about the best way to eat strudel or about how to do the hokie-pokie.
The whole test is culturally biased because when they first put these questions on trial, they always keep in mind how well white students (the norm) do on every question in these tests. Furthermore, it's not only about the questions or items in these items; it's also about external but relevant factors that favor some groups over others when it comes to performance on these tests.