Originally Posted By: afsaneh77
You keep repeating what you said before. You didn't address my concern. It's obviously hypothetical. Do you think being smart or having good grades is limited to white people and the rest are just making their way through affirmative action? I said you can't have an all white class and then tell me there was not a racist agenda behind it. Affirmative action with its mandatory quota makes sure of that. It's not just the race. It makes sure women are let in boys clubs as well. You can't tell me there are not women who are qualified but would be slighted if affirmative action did not exist. Oh wait, you can. You think women should stay in the kitchen from what I remember from past discussions. Affirmative action is necessary when there are mindsets like yours.


I'm not sure how common it is in this day and age that any public university is going to have a policy that let's it be nearly all white. But you keep bringing up this hypothetical, rather unlikely, worst case scenario in order to justify your support of affirmative action across the board. I'm talking about public policy in the over all picture. And diversity of a student body should not be used as an excuse to let certain women and/or minorities, who are less qualified, go ahead of those whites/men who are more qualified. It should be based on qualification alone. Not on race or gender.


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