Is tolerance intolerant?

[bennyboy]

Harvard's position as I see it 

...that's nice, sweetheart......and?

I shouldn't have to quote myself from earlier in thread..right, you already know?  You are wrong about literally everything you've commented on in this thread.  More embarrassingly, you are wrong in exactly the way that sheet wearing sister fuckers are wrong.

It's hard to be wrong in a sillier way.

Now..imma go down into my basement and make a pecan bedframe, while you find some creative way to get something else wrong.  Back in a few....and gl.

Please quote the full line:

Harvard's position as I see it is that there's a ceiling effect-- that the scores of so many students are sufficient to demonstrate they can complete the Harvard program, that the extra 60 points can be safely disregarded.

. . . and then read what Harvard says about it:

"Given the extraordinary pool of applicants, many of whom have the ability to succeed academically at Harvard, the admissions process is designed to identify those students who manifest the qualities, academic and otherwise, that suggest they will become engaged participants and leaders in an increasingly diverse, complex society."

I don't know why me saying that would do anything but elicit agreement from you, since it is pretty much the definition of affirmative action. In that post, I was playing devil's advocate for a moment, and clarifying your position with the quote from Harvard. People don't usually do that-- take the time to actually consider and clarify opposing opinions-- so I'm not surprised you didn't catch it. But that's what it was.

Anyway, is it really an "increasingly diverse, complex society" though? Or is it that Harvard would like to avoid being branded for what it still mainly is-- a puppy mill for enfranchised rich kids? You want to talk about equal representation? How about demanding that every income group has proportional representation!