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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      I like how they made an actual argument that referenced real things the Republican party has actually done, and the best defense you could come up with was “nuh uh!”

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        Hold on let me find Dorothy, Tinman, and the lion and we have the entire crew to hang out with strawman.

        Ignoring the fact that AA has nothing to do with legacy admissions and frankly wouldn’t survive a challenge on it’s own even in a less stacked court; no I do not think banning legacy admissions would be effective policy. Legacy admissions allow an individual to expand capabilities and capacity of educational institutions and get a favor in return. At it’s core it helps more individuals get education at the cost of unfairness which frankly is built in at every level. That rich person will always have an advantage. You’ve fixed a small and trivial piece. They still have the network and funding.

        It’s frankly hurting the intended recipients to right a wrong that will not be fixed unless you somehow eliminate income equality. It’s bad policy in pursuit of an unrealistic standard for us to achieve in this decade+.

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          Sorry, they have nothing to do with each other? Systemic racism is real and legacy admissions are definitely a part of that.

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          You keep mentioning whether it’s effective policy, but that has nothing to do with SCOTUS. Their one and only concern is whether the policy is constitutional. Effectiveness is for the other branches of government to deal with.

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            100%. You might want to tell the guy mouthing off legacy admissions then. I’ve already pointed out that the bitching is beyond the scope of this case.

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      Let’s use a simple metaphor. You have a bridge. One side of the bridge is heavier than the other, so it’s not balanced. You add a counterweight to balance the bridge.

      Several years later, someone says “there’s no need for this counterweight anymore, it’s just unbalancing the bridge.” If the bridge was rebuilt to address the imbalances, you’d be right. But it wasn’t rebuilt, it’s the same bridge with the same flaws it had when the counterweight was put in place. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need affirmative action. But pretending we’re in that ideal world isn’t actually solving anything.

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        This assumes that the systemic issues causing the imbalance are the admissions themselves and that you are fixing the source of the problem. Everyone agrees about fixing the source of a problem. There are many issues with patching over a systemic concern by targetting a single metric, the most common being Goodhart’s Law “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

        For example, if POC are being exposed to poorer education prior to University, the solution is not to force the universities to lower standards for POC, it would be to address the issues in the elementary schools.