The GOP’s war on racially diverse college campuses was never going to be confined to the party’s war on affirmative action.
Affirmative Action means that degrees earned by minorities are worth less than the same degree by a white guy.
A side effect means that I seek straight male white or Asian doctors. My health is too important to trust to someone who only made it there because of that skin color or sexuality.
AA is hot garbage. It rewards rich minorities while punishing poor people. There’s a reason everyone hates it.
Racial discrimination is unconstitutional. I don’t care if it benefits you or me, it’s wrong.
No buts. No what abouts. No “but a long time ago!” Just no.
I wonder what their final solution will be for diversity?
Black and brown people at the bottom ever subservient to a small elite of rich white cis straight men. It was never about the ‘unfairness’ of affirmative action. If it was you’ll also see them taking aim at the unfairness of legacy admissions as well. It has always been about keeping black and brown folk down and maintaining hierarchy.
Couldn’t be that it was racist ineffective policy. No definitely not.
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.
In a world where people are good and decent, there would be no racists, bigots, xenophobes, misogynists or homophobes. These behaviors come exclusively from conservatives. Our world would be a much better place without conservatives.
