07-09-2023, 02:25 PM
(07-09-2023, 01:15 PM)GMDino Wrote: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-clarence-thomas-go-yale-under-affirmative-action-policy-1810180
In the video in the tweet Thomas seemed to think he didn't get a job because he was accepted into college under affirmative action. Others disagreed with that take.
So, yes. He did benefit from it.
No, you cannot say that he did without showing that his application would not have gotten him accepted if he wasn't black. Can you show that? Them simply having an affirmative action program does not equal Thomas only got in because they had an affirmative action program. You're actually backing Thomas's issue with the program and the stigma he felt because of it. Unwittingly making his point for him, you assumed he got into Yale only because of AA just like everyone else who belittled him because of it. The more things change.
Even your own source backs my position;
Even without written documentary evidence that separately confirms the decision-making behind Thomas' admission, we can be confident that affirmative action was in place and is likely to have had an influence on his placement.
I.E. they can't prove he only got in because of AA, but that "it was likely". Like I said, the more things change.
