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You may cheer for affirmative action's demise, but it will result in less opportunity for minorities, and less diversity in post-secondary institutions (which means less diversity in fields requiring advanced degrees) so consider that before you dance.

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Why would that affect us? Why would less diversity mean anything? You can say this but would it actually affect anything?

On the off chance that this is a genuine question, try asking GPT4.

Why don't you tell us, because it just seems like hand waving at the moment.

I just asked it right now. It wrote me a 500-word essay with multiple important bullet points, each of which is probably a 300-500 word essay on its own. This is simply not a twitter-length topic. If you're really interested go educate yourself. If you're not, quit wasting both our time.

Thats ok, I know why you're defelecting.

Define "us" in this question.

"Diversity" isn't an abstract number we try to grow, it's a word to describe human beings who are extremely capable of doing a thing that they're not allowed to do because of the shade of their skin tone or what side of the tracks they grew up on. You want diversity because living in a world where people get to do what they want is a better world than any alternative.

You also want diversity because you want the best people for a given situation, and the odds it's actually a bunch of rich white kids that are the best at being doctors and lawyers and whatnot is basically zero.

But I agree with my sibling commenter; ChatGPT will give you the best form of this argument, better than anything I can write.

I know the argument, the more people the higher the probability for something good or exceptional. But I havent really seen many examples of that in reality. We've got a lot more diversity in the system, but the people that rise to the top are still the same types of people, not the ones that were being advantaged by the old rules that were struck down by the Supreme Court.

Consider that every Fortune 100 company has a DEI initiative and some kind of DEI officer (dedicated, full-time role). There are so many benefits to diversity, that it's ubiquitous at the top companies.

I won't really be able to explain all of this here, but I do need you to understand that what you're arguing for is to allow more people to be oppressed because of their skin tone. I know that's not what you want, that's not what anyone wants.

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