Comment on USA | California bill would give public university admission priority to slaves' descendants

Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you mean?

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  • xor@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    why deny educational opportunities to people that can’t prove they’re descended from a slave, hundreds of years ago?
    it seems pretty unfair to everyone else, and reduces the quality of students.
    if anything should be based on merit, it’s education….
    or what about slave descendants who aren’t going to college? they don’t deserve reparations? just students?

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are still effects on education from slavery. This is one way to remedy that, but it’s not a complete solution to this problem, let alone sufficient reparations across the board. It doesn’t have to be though.

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      • xor@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        they should get free college, not subtract from other students opportunities

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    • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about things that are unfair to descendants of slaves? What do you think about those things?

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      • xor@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        your whataboutism isn’t relevant here.
        ….
        are you inferring that i’m unaware of or unsympathetic to that? i’m not, so very much could be done to help with that, ethically, without like, denying educational opportunities to people who can’t prove that they’re descendants of slaves.
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        i.e. admit people to college based on the content of their character, not by the color of their skin…

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