After gutting affirmative action, Republicans target minority scholarships
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The GOP’s war on racially diverse college campuses was never going to be confined to the party’s war on affirmative action.
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The GOP’s war on racially diverse college campuses was never going to be confined to the party’s war on affirmative action.
But don't you dare call the GOP racist!
The GOP is garbage, AND, giving people special privileges based on skin color or race is fucked.
Want to empower those who have less? Change the criteria to economic, and remove race from the equation.
How anybody thinks otherwise, this Skeleton can’t quite understand.
Kids from poor White schools still don't face as much of a headwind as kids from poor Black or Latino schools. Systemic racism is still present in k-12 education, and needs to be addressed before declaring victory at the college admission level and going home.
Quite the blanket statement you’ve made there.
Who’s going home and calling it a day? Affirmative action in its previous methodology is the only way to fight systemic racism? That’s black and white, a false dichotomy.
It’s obvious that fighting discrimination with discrimination is self-defeating, but people don’t want to acknowledge when their thinking sucks. Instead the shouting just gets louder, and round and round we go.
All the while the class warfare rages on.
It’s not racism to not want different rules for different races. Make scholarships for people from underprivileged families, not from race.
Just because something is helping out a race that you want it to help out doesn’t make it free from racism.
It’s my understanding that diversity scholarships generally put those below the poverty line first.
Intention will be all over the place and it's not just about scholarships. It's about admission.
What it actually did was put middle class minorities in higher end colleges at the cost of middle class white kids. It did very little for anyone who couldn't afford the costs.