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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
not to be contrary, and i'm not specifically calling you this, but this statement of yours is dripping with racism. whether that was your intent or not.
AA is not causing vastly inferior students to be graduate as doctors. last time i checked, AA doesn't graduate anyone. a white student who graduates with a C average is still a doctor, a black kid (whether he got in through AA or not) who graduates with a C average is still a doctor. if they can't cut muster, then they'll fail out. but any minority that makes it through med school does it because of the work they put into it (and the intelligence they have)... not because of AA.
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A 30-year friend of mine teaches in a medical school, and (I'm keeping it polite here) he disagrees with you. Emphatically.
According to him, extra credit can be assigned (which if you think about it, doesn't do anything to teach what was originally required to be learned) and the inferior students are just passed along. If they're not, and the percentage of minority graduates drops, the federal money dries up.
some of the affirmative action babies screw up so badly in the real world that they either lose their licenses or wind up in an area with less litigation (like public health) but they're still lousy doctors. And they do a lot of harm before they get caught.
Yes, other students can wind up in the same situation, but speaking from thirty years' experience, my friend says the percentage of AA students having problems is MUCH higher.
That's not racism. Unless you consider it racist that the NBA is around 70% black.