They haven’t thought this push against affirmative action through very well.
Take away the preferences white boys have been getting and colleges will be swamped by women and Asians.
Somehow, I don’t think that’s the outcome Sessions and Co. are looking for when they say they want colleges to purify themselves of “intentional discrimination.”
Photo gallery, including the ones here.
If you'd like to read or comment on a synthesis of the ideas here, please check out my evolving work on government.
Pollution, privacy, abortion, net neutrality -- just about every controversy in modern life -- depends on correctly defining and understanding our inalienable rights.
Articles, stories, and books can all be downloaded on the ebook page. New addition, 2017-01-04, Shortcuts, a novel on that useless battle of the sexes .
Biologist, lifelong denizen of academe, science fiction writer, world-class procrastinator, and proudly lazy.
I goof around on Mastodon
Astronomy - Space
All over the map
Tech stuff
Dreamers
The Realist at work . . .
Credits: Acid Test uses WordPress. Spam filtering and general junk defense by Akismet and Anti-leech. Rotating banner images php script from Dan Benjamin on A List Apart. Open source Piwik used to count site visits and their geographic location. (Google is getting too pervasive for my tastes.) No personal information of any kind is tracked or stored.
Affirmative action for white males – the most thoroughgoing, long standing affirmative action program in existence.
Branjor on August 9th, 2017 at 08:22
As the kidz say, IKR.
Interesting study out of Sweden, Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man, showing that the actual result when people are forced to hire women is that mediocre men get squeezed out. Which improves the whole organization and has the long term effect of facilitating intelligent hires from then on.
I suspect the same would be true for other minorities, because I’m a believer that 95% of any group are mediocre. Discriminate against anybody and you run through the 5% in your favored group pretty quick, and there you are, scraping the bottom of the barrel again. The evidence says we don’t have enough good people to be able to afford to throw any of them out.
quixote on August 10th, 2017 at 18:59