We are all equal again, right?

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(06-30-2023, 05:07 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: If we're going by what society feels than SCOTUS did the right thing by them.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/affirmative-action-supreme-court-college-admissions-opinion-poll-2023-06-21/

Hm, what society feels is one aspect, but maybe not the only one, especially when it's as narrow as in this poll. Minority rights probably outweigh the will of the majority at times, though this is tricky terrain.

(06-30-2023, 05:07 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Injustice is injustice.  I'd much rather find ways to lift people up without pushing others down as a consequence.

Sure. It's just questionable to me if such ways are realistically to be found as a quick fix.

(06-30-2023, 05:07 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I think there's a misunderstanding happening here.  I was answering as to why the gap between black and white student test scores, and why the poorest whites score on par with the wealthiest blacks.  Obviously education is important to someone willing to go to college, but you also have to educate yourself on the way there.  So my response was solely addressing the test score gap and closeness to scores at wildly varying income levels.

I think I got that... but that's never a certainty of course. I assumed though that these test scores are taken from folks that apply for college, hence are willing to get higher education. If the reason for the gap in these scores were that education is often frowned upon within black communities, then why would these people apply in the first place. Or apply for college even though education was not important to them on the way there because of cultural peer pressure. It doesn't quite add up for me.

Or say the explanation that even poor white kids might often attend better schools in their neighbourhoods than not so poor black folks in theirs seems a bit more logical to me.