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Jim Dueholm's avatar

Great post, not least because Paul doesn't use the term "affirmative action." I'm reminded of Lloyd Bentsen's claim he knew Jack Kennedy, and Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy. Well, I knew affirmative action, and what we have now is no affirmative action. Affirmative action is outreach, an attempt to find and recruit qualified candidates in a minority group. What we have now is naked preference for those objectively unqualified for a position. Call it a racial spoils system or race-based preferences, as Paul does, or racial preference, or reverse discrimination. Call it anything but affirmative action. "Affirmative action" is nice sounding, a term that evokes a time when civil rights activists strove for equality, not "equity." Many opponents of our racial spoils system persist in calling it affirmative action, a nice sounding term that cedes a big chunk of the battlefield before the bugle sounds.

I look forward to Paul's Part Two take. Jim Dueholm

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Teachinprek's avatar

What you fail to realize is that the goal in academia and in education in general is to do away with merit at all levels.

So when you argue that an African American student may do less well at a prestigious school and therefore not achieved their career goals competing against merit-based entrants, liberal education institutions have an answer to that. Stop grading based on merit. Use equitable grading practices. Or do not grade at all.

I'm a teacher in a public school. This is being pushed up through the university level. If we don't stop these changes from happening, we will have a highly uneducated, illiterate society in no time. We are almost there .

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