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Originally Posted by Xibit
My purpose for this thread was to show that there is not (an academic-based) meritocracy and to show how Whites benefit from non-merit based preferences and other considerations. Maybe I edited my post before you saw it but the 3rd quote in my header post gives an example of the other (ostensibly) non-merit considerations.
I posted it in the other thread and reposted it again because it continues to be something people avoid/ignore. Just like in the Hopwood case, because AA is stereotyped as "racial discrimination", people overlook the actual facts.
The AA/college admissions standards debate surrounding the UM case hardly ever spoke to the facts which showed how 46.7% of the students with lower grades and scores who were admitted in the year Jennifer Gratz didn't get admitted were White. No one went after those White students. That, in and of itself, is a White preference - a White privilege.
You don't hear people suggesting that those White students shouldn't have gotten in or any allusions to how they were not "qualified." Apparently their grades/scores didn't "qualify" them... So why the silence?
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Posted for all the clarification that needs to be made. Posted in a manner in which nothing can be denied.
But a thread about the Iraq war just can't follow a previous thread about the Iraq war an not contain a different argument or perspective. It just can't happen like that. No. Not a all. Iraq is Iraq, I tell you!!