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Originally Posted by smooth
I'm pointing out that such a view of the process is warped. Schools are not letting people with less skill into their schools. These applicants have the skill, or they wouldn't be elligable to apply. Other factors, besides skill, like class, the effects of a legacy of discrimination, furthering racial horizons on campus, and etc. are what affirmative action in schools try to address.
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provably false. i certainly have the baseline ability for getting into the engineering programs at MIT, but i'm nowhere close to being as qualified as the top echelon of people who do get the slots. just because you have the baseline skills doesn't even come close to proving that you are most fit among the applicants.
how can levels of discrimination be measured? i know a black missionary family who spent the last 15 years in kenya... should their kids be given special consideration for admission? also, the bit about their presence being valuable for "furthuring racial horizons on campus" is the most demeaning thing i've read in a while. for myself, i will never EVER accept something i did not earn so that my skin color will furthur the horizons of someone else. you may as well stick these people in a damn zoo.
the most unjust thing about affirmative action is the sneering looks and hushed conversations the minorities who DID make it without a patronizing hand-up. they cannot remove themselves from the stigma. they cannot shake the suspicion that they took a more deserving person's place.