Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on college campuses next year.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    Wouldn’t the black communities that suffered the most economic injustice from racist policy benefit from an economic AA while limiting the benefit an affluent black applicant would have previously gotten over a poor Asian person, for example?

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      11 months ago

      Wouldn’t directly working to address the outcomes of racism as a whole be better than trying to make it about something else and trying to focus on the exceptions?

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        211 months ago

        I mean the real solution here (putting some real fucking consequences on racist people in power) simply isn’t going to happen in our lifetime so as much as I can see the flaws in AA, it isn’t the worst equaliser either.

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        111 months ago

        I’m not sure. I feel like it could address the outcomes of said historic racism without having rules codified by race. I admit this would benefit kids of other races that are poor through factors other than racism. Economic AA would also benefit another marginalized group, Native Americans, although I will admit that I’m ignorant to what extent AA had already benefited Native Americans.