After gutting affirmative action, Republicans target minority scholarships
After gutting affirmative action, Republicans target minority scholarships
The Wisconsin State Assembly's speaker suggested college grants meant for minority students are on the chopping block.
The GOP’s war on racially diverse college campuses was never going to be confined to the party’s war on affirmative action.
I wonder what their final solution will be for diversity?
62Black and brown people at the bottom ever subservient to a small elite of rich white cis straight men. It was never about the ‘unfairness’ of affirmative action. If it was you’ll also see them taking aim at the unfairness of legacy admissions as well. It has always been about keeping black and brown folk down and maintaining hierarchy.
18Probably craving for the chance to go back to segregation
11Final solution... I think I've heard that somewhere before, I wonder where... Might have been in another language, German maybe...
8Ach Quatsch! Das bildest du dir nur ein!
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To shower all the minorities in glory?
5The Rs are all about merit. They believe in pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Like the old saying goes, "Arbeit macht frei"
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Lack thereof, probably
2Woosh
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Seems like their final solution is to stop basing scholarships, awards, and college placement off of the color of a person's skin or their race.
-23Median white household income in the U.S. - $74,262
Median black household income in the U.S. - $46,400
Maybe, possibly, black people need more help paying for college than white people?
Let me guess, that lower income is their own fault. Black people need to collectively pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I wonder if education has a part to play in that?
11Actually it is to change it back to basing it off of wealth, family connections, and other things white people have more of than minorities.
So race based outcomes without saying it out loud.
11Yeah man, these fucking minorities need to pick themselves up by their great great grandparents bootstraps.
8Yeah, because eliminating cultural support programs does that.
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Because if we gain power, they lose it. Hierarchy must be maintained. When everyone has power, no one does. And that’s not “fair.”
41"We don't need these old protections, we're different now."
Oh, really? What, pray tell, makes us, less than 100 years later, so fundamentally different from Jim Crow supporters and the fucking Nazis that we don't need to be concerned about it anymore? I find it to be particularly shocking news that Dr. King fixed racism for all time, considering my experience living in the south when Obama was running for president.
I don't buy it. I think this is ultimately about keeping the poor down.
19But don't you dare call the GOP racist!
17The GOP is garbage, AND, giving people special privileges based on skin color or race is fucked.
Want to empower those who have less? Change the criteria to economic, and remove race from the equation.
How anybody thinks otherwise, this Skeleton can’t quite understand.
-12It’s not racism to not want different rules for different races. Make scholarships for people from underprivileged families, not from race.
Just because something is helping out a race that you want it to help out doesn’t make it free from racism.
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Why can’t they just leave us alone?
14Because someone told them they were special and that they deserved more. And against a lifetime of insurmountable evidence to the contrary, they still believe it.
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This is why they accuse slippery slope on everything, because that's what they intend to do.
11Is this a US thing I don't get? How are diversity scholarships not affirmitive action?
4There it is! Check.
But to answer your bad faith conservative argument, affirmative action is typically in regards to admission, not ability to pay.
Which is also funny because that's the next step: black people are technically allowed, see we met the law, but we jacked up the tuition, now it's too much for "the poors". Whoopsies, how embarrassing, I guess black people can't attend, no issues here, teehee. Hey let's do the same thing with k-12 and defund public schools. Land of opportunity, if you can pay, teehee.
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They want a world where only the children of the rich are allowed to go to universities, while everyone else goes to vocational school or directly into the labor force.
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7That's known as the paradox of tolerance. Society can't tolerate the intolerant even if tolerance is our goal.
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In a world where people are good and decent, there would be no racists, bigots, xenophobes, misogynists or homophobes. These behaviors come exclusively from conservatives. Our world would be a much better place without conservatives.
5Tom the Dancing Bug has a good cartoon about this situation. https://boingboing.net/2023/07/05/tom-the-dancing-bug-class-of-28-college-admissions.html
3But who's gonna do my yard work, and other menial tasks? Cmon now. I need to step on someone ffs!
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1Unfortunately these bills were really never going to stand up in court and I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did. The best way forward is to reintroduce the same scholarships and admittance but make them income based.
1So scholarships and colleges have to ignor all indications of race. They will probably only be need-based grants and scholarships Who needs those the most? Minorities and people of color. GOP when minorities strive still get access to education one way or another: :O
1Affirmative Action means that degrees earned by minorities are worth less than the same degree by a white guy.
A side effect means that I seek straight male white or Asian doctors. My health is too important to trust to someone who only made it there because of that skin color or sexuality.
AA is hot garbage. It rewards rich minorities while punishing poor people. There's a reason everyone hates it.
Racial discrimination is unconstitutional. I don't care if it benefits you or me, it's wrong.
No buts. No what abouts. No "but a long time ago!" Just no.
-6Good. Racial discrimination is bad. It has no place in a modern society.
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