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Originally Posted by aurigus
The "value" of increasing the likelyhood that a legacy will be admitted to a school is that the school will have a better chance of getting donations from an alumni "family" that is from the school. Welcome to capitalism.
I don't see how this is compared to affirmative action though. Affirmative action is based on race, this has no basis on race.
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No it's based on an even more exclusionary and biased basis than race. That's how it is equatable.
And you say welcome to captialism...well many of the schools have affirmative action in place so they can receive benefit from state and national aid programs so them allowing under qualified is now justifiable based upon the terms of "welcome to captialism".
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If the anti-legacy people are against that, then why not be upset over the fact that they don't let people with poor grades in? Isn't that discriminating by how "smart" you are?
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There's a difference in seperating people on qualifications and seperating people on privilege and that's what legacy is privliage nothing more.