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Originally Posted by RAGEAngel9
I don't know. I mean part of our society is that you earn money that can be passed to your children.
It's part of being in any orginization.
Hell, it's really the same as networking.
I can see where this is easily compared to AA (race based), but I really think this isn't as bad. Since any group can be a legacy, and if you aren't now you can earn it for your children and help them out later.
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Actually it's much worse. You have people as thick as a brick getting into high level schools based on their family name alone. These same people likely have had every resource available to them and didn't take advantage of it because they knew they had their way paved for them since before they were born. At least SOME affirmative action cases gives some people who are intelligent and want to learn a legitimate shot. Many of whom are intelligent and once in the door produce just as well as none affirmative action students, they just didn't have all the opportunites afforded to them that others did.
Inheriting money is fine and dandy it's comendable to have people work hard and store up cash for their kids. But handing out admissions to the best universities in the land because grandpa built that school a gym is flat BS.
And then this kind of stuff doesn't end at the schooling level it persists into the private sector. It's the Good Ole boy system and it's not right. I do find it interesting though that people will rail about how unfair affirmative action is but see nothing wrong with an even more exclusionary and illogical system such as legacy admissions.