• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
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      Fine the mental gymnastics is to justify why hereditary admission criteria are more acceptable to you not “good”

      Yes the white kid does.

      • The racial biases of whoever runs the admission system
      • The racial biases of teachers at the school
      • The white kid is still more likely to benefit from hereditary admission and insider information on how to do well in admission tests/letter.

      To pretend a white kid in a predominantly black school doesn’t have an advantage in “colorblind” admissions is to deny the existence of systemic racism.

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          Without AA, racism in admissions is illegal.

          No positive measure to counteract systemic biases are illegal.

          Hereditary admissions when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

          All the implicit systemic biases in the admission system are very much legal

          The only thing you can’t do is ensure black kids get admitted.

          If you have a system and you know its giving you biases results you can compensate for the bias, without understanding every single component bias, that’s what AA was, banning it, is sticking your head in the sand and going back to faux/real Naïvity about how system racism works.

          We might as well start asking “why do black people prefer renting?”, because as a nation we are commited to pretending to not understand that there are systemic reasons for things.

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            when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

            Black people only make up 12.6% of the population. If 80% of previous students aren’t black, then black students are heavily over-represented in the student body.