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Getting Clear About Diversity and Affirmative Action
Townhall.com ^ | August 9, 2017 | Star Parker

Posted on 08/09/2017 10:20:55 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: JayGalt
Actually, I'd be interested in seeing the accepted/graduated percentages.

Yeah, yeah, a lot of them would have degrees in soc, poly sci, black studies, women studies, gender studies, etc.

About the hardest thing in those programs is setting aside one's common sense, and being able to regurgitate the bs without going nuts.

21 posted on 08/09/2017 10:54:42 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: JayGalt

Make that percentages since they dumped the SATs as a requirement.


22 posted on 08/09/2017 10:56:43 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

The latest I saw was that a Prof was letting his students choose their own grades so they didn’t get triggered or anxious. Formula for success- NOT!


23 posted on 08/09/2017 11:07:57 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: PGR88

They would get a student body that could succeed at Harvard without dumbing down the classes. No one should be looking at color before, during or after the acceptance process. If they want diversity they can select for diverse life experience, that is not a color or racial divider.


24 posted on 08/09/2017 11:10:58 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: Kaslin
There are, unfortunately, still many parts of our society where the legacy of racial injustice limits opportunity.

Blah blah blah...

I agree with the Supreme Court and Harvard about the importance of diversity.

Of course you do.

25 posted on 08/09/2017 11:23:50 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Calvin Locke

heh, that’s an impolitic thing to wonder about....


26 posted on 08/09/2017 11:54:40 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Kaslin

bfl


27 posted on 08/09/2017 11:55:39 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Altura Ct.
There are, unfortunately, still many parts of our society where the legacy of racial injustice limits opportunity....

by discriminating against white males...
28 posted on 08/09/2017 12:20:19 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Kaslin

Affirmative Action is just a code word for racism.


29 posted on 08/09/2017 12:21:07 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Kaslin
There are, unfortunately, still many parts of our society where the legacy of racial injustice limits opportunity.

No. There aren't.

30 posted on 08/09/2017 12:40:40 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Kaslin
There are, unfortunately, still many parts of our society where the legacy of racial injustice limits opportunity.

The doors of opportunity have been open wide. "Affirmative action" has been getting minorities admitted into college in excessive numbers.

If they are not succeeding, then "racial injustice" is not the issue. The issue is something else, and it will never be solved as long as "racial injustice" is promoted as an excuse. If you don't name the problem correctly, you can't solve it.

31 posted on 08/09/2017 2:35:39 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Billthedrill

Fine, if you want to squeeze God out.

You are playing the pride game, that oh you have such a superior philosophy. I don’t do that. I just make a point of knowing a superior God, and it’s your own fault if you won’t do that yourself.


32 posted on 08/09/2017 3:55:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Billthedrill

But anyhow as I might have also pointed out.

When Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free, that wasn’t about Pi even though as a good carpenter He would have to know about Pi.

Therefore this was a certain kind of truth. A salvational one.

So sue me if it is not clear to you. It’s clear to me.


33 posted on 08/09/2017 3:57:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Agree.

Not only is it BS, but studies (by liberals!) show that greater diversity creates greater social problems and less financial prosperity. So there is no big diversity bonus, only a diversity penalty.

I’m not against diversity, but I am 100% against discriminating in order to create forced diversity.


34 posted on 08/09/2017 4:24:09 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

“Diversity” for “diversity’s” sake has much to do with the problems in the USA. It manifests itself in education, employment, crime, tokenism, drugs, bureaucracy, taxes/cost of living/insurance, neighborhoods, and attitudes that someone is somehow “owed” for alleged “past discrimination”

Oh wait, the “past discrimination” is old hat now. It’s that “Diversity” is a beautiful thing, remember ‘our strength DEPENDS on our ‘diversity’”

Such BS to rationalize for incompetence and laziness.


35 posted on 08/09/2017 4:36:27 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg'sB)
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To: exDemMom

We’ve now matured to part II of the problem, where handing out unearned degrees leaves “graduates” unable to pass professional licensing exams anyway. Friends describe tokens unable to pass a bar exam in one case and an engineering exam in another. How many “preferred minority” lawyers and engineers can companies be forced to hire as basically admin assistants?


36 posted on 08/10/2017 3:42:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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