this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
for these people the mere presence of any nonwhite person, and especially any black person, in a desired and prestigious position is on its face evidence of anti-white discrimination and unfair preferences.
it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.
A dentist I went to said something about it being easier for his next kid to get into college because of the anti-AA decision and I was speechless. Fellow white person, that is NOT how it works. 😳
I guarantee that if that dentist’s kid does not get into their preferred college, that dentist will still blame affirmative action. The unspoken belief is that people like them *deserve opportunity* and people who don’t look like them do not.
I have an older relative who blamed affirmative action for his not getting into his preferred college, even though he entered college before affirmative action began.
Under Reagan, my friend asked me if she should check “black” on her college application, since she “didn’t need it.” The smartest person I knew, top of her prep-school class, from a comfortable family of educators, who spoke fluent French & German, had internalized that message at least to a degree.
People who were, presumably, ranked lower than you. Jesus.
The last two high schools I've worked in don't publish class rank. I usually think that's a good idea, but things like this make me wonder.
