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Originally Posted by TigerTank77
Bringing people up with the idea that their disadvantaged or advantaged because of their skin color is a load of horseshit. It's 2011.
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You can't just ignore the statistics and say 'oh, that's just about income'. If the statistics show one group is dies almost 20 years earlier, makes up almost a quarter of the prison population (despite making up 3% of the wider population) and less than 25% of people who share you ethnicity finish even high school... SOMETHING is going on.
You could say, oh, X group just happens to have more working class people than white people which is where the issue comes from. But that in itself is a huge problem. If one race is substantially lesser off than another, that IS disadvantage because of skin colour and you can't just pretend it doesn't exist.
To argue that because we're white we're at some sort of disadvantage when it comes to college application... well
that's a load of horseshit. By virtue of being born white we already have a hell of an advantage over other races when it comes to getting into college.
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Originally Posted by TigerTank77
If we want to actually be an egalitarian society, we can't be doing shit like this.
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If we want to be an egalitarian society we
a) NEED scholarships like this to make it a fair game
b) NEED scholarships like this so the next generation doesn't face the same problems (
then you can get rid of them).