Equality, to the priviledged, looks like persecution.
That many Asian kids got a golden ticket, and now won't get a golden ticket, seems like not such a problem to those who were denied any such chance at a golden ticket for generations.
That many Asian kids got a golden ticket, and now won't get a golden ticket, seems like not such a problem to those who were denied any such chance at a golden ticket for generations.
The privileged go to private school. Our programs are dominated by first generation immigrants, mostly SE Asian. Even the white component tends to be poor immigrant families.
If hard-working and intelligent poor people clawing their way upwards is a stain on equality, something has gone deeply deeply wrong with our conception of equality.
It’s always been a problem for NY liberals that these programs were so massively underrepresenting the black population. The fact that they were highly diverse had to be ignored. The fact that they were rife with poor first generation immigrants had to be ignored (it undercut the “rich people buy exam prep to get their kids in, which is why so few black kids get in” narrative). (The few black kids that did get in were almost /all/ first generation immigrants, too).
The only thing that mattered was the optics: not enough black kids, kill the program.
I am saddened, that all the folks frightened by a world more equal immediately resort to imaginary persecution as a first reaction.
"Not enough black kids" is "bigotry", right? Or do you argue that black kids are not smart? What is that argument called?
What a dumb comment.
More equal according to racial distribution and 0 other things.
Color of your skin over your character/intelligence/work ethic?
So does persecution.
What does "got a golden ticket" mean? On merit?
Rich white liberals should not be tearing them down in the name of "antiracism".
Meanwhile, the people pushing these changes all have graduate degrees and incredibly privileged backgrounds. It absolutely is persecution and punching down for them to be going after poor immigrants.