Looks like RFK Jr. supports affirmative action.
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Let's, for the sake of argument, say that's true. Is the answer really to let in blacks at six times the rate of whites, or whatever, when they have the same score?
I wish these people would be open about exactly what it is they're talking about. Exactly who is being affected, both negatively and positively, and if that's fair. It's all well and good to say 'racism bad, we should do something about that,' but that's not what this court case is about. This isn't about diversity. It isn't about racism. Well, it is, but not the main kind (white-on-black) that liberals recognize.
I've heard it so much today. That this is discrimination against blacks, that this is banning them from college, this is segregation. No, this is righting some of the unfair policies that targeted races that on average performed well. It was utter bullshit, deserved to be overturned, and never should have been allowed in the first place.
These cowards need to speak clearly about what it is they're advocating for, and what questions this case actually answered.
This wasn't a referendum on Racism™, this wasn't a referendum on blacks.
It's a sad state of affairs when this lib is at the lowest my third favorite candidate, and the other two also leave varying degrees of sour taste in my mouth. We need better candidates, man. I like Trump, but he's sorta retarded. I respect some of what DeSantis has done, but I think he's snake. I like a few of RFK's takes, and appreciate that he's at least mostly anti-establishment, but he's a lib through-and-through. I want better choices, fuck.
Indirectly it was a referendum on blacks because left or right if we're being honest, we know only one group benefitted from it. And why wouldn't they? That's the group it was specifically designed to benefit even if no one ever said it explicitly.
We all know what inner city means. What bad neighborhood means. What "youths" means. The polite euphemisms we create to avoid stating the obvious ugly truth. AA was created to favor blacks and it going away will undo that. But colleges are about to become much safer places.
AA was created to favor Democrats. It is a matter of indifference whether blacks are harmed or benefited by it, as long as all they have can be claimed to be a political favor.
There were some people on social media yesterday denouncing Clarence Thomas for having allegedly benefited from AA and now voting to outlaw it. Because if you ever benefit from AA, even if you didn't ask for it, you are in their debt forever.
And how stupid does it sound to say “I have second rate employees, but my staff is so diverse”
Also - the racist administrators were basically admitting ultra rich Nigerian princes. Not the poor US blacks. Because they cared about the optics, not the country.
I agree 100%, you just described my views on the current options to a T.
Yup. Only good thing I can say is, at least there are semi-palatable people in both parties this time around; that wasn't really the case last time around. You had Trump, or you had Covidiot Gun Grabbing Authoritarian Dem #XX.
Question is, in the unlikely scenario that neither Trump, DeSantis, or RFK make the ballot...am I writing in Trump, or RFK?
The first time I voted for president, I wrote in Ron Paul :)
I would pull the lever for either Trump or DeSantis without too much pain though. They are speed bumps at least.
My feeling/experience is that "black americans" are unlikely to be benefiting from these policies in the first place.
Most of the people I've seen benefit are either white women or people who's parents are from other countries - completely uninvolved in the so called "history of discrimination in the us".