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Advantages of Colorblindness:
1. There is no need to terminate it. AA is clearly a temporary program, albeit one that nobody knows when to stop.
2. It isn't racist or reverse racist, so institutions that practice it would not be committing acts of preferential racism themselves.
3. It gives minority applicants the respect they deserve instead of assuming that every single black person is an idiot.
4. It makes white people happy that they are not discriminated against.
If AA was truly about rectifying past discrimination, Asians would receive it. However, because Asian (college) applicants are competitive with white students, they receive no help. Is the motto of AA, "If your race was historically discriminated against and can't seem to bring itself back into competitiveness with white applicants, we will help you. But if you've managed to overcome discrimination and become competitive, we're not giving you anything."?
The designers of AA programs are only human: they make mistakes, they do the wrong thing. Let's do the right thing and take the power of racism out of their hands: let's make race a non-factor.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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