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In the discussion thread: Robert's "long game" is to dismantle affirmative action [View all]

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Tue Jul 3, 2012, 09:08 AM

uponit7771 (16,130 posts)

41. You've not listened to both side of the issue either, you'd never thing it was unfair if the true

...intention of AA was known and it's not to make things "equal"

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54 replies	Author	Time	Post
Robert's "long game" is to dismantle affirmative action [View all]	Skidmore	Jul 2012	OP
I'm not quite sure what to make of John Roberts lately	permatex	Jul 2012	#1
Don't be fooled. Look at the overall track record......	marmar	Jul 2012	#8
Exactly. Remember Citizens United.	Bake	Jul 2012	#38
Its a scam...	dtom67	Jul 2012	#32
Hadn't thought of it like that	permatex	Jul 2012	#36
I am reading how some Labor historians think AA split the economic working class that used to	patrice	Jul 2012	#2
I agree its created a tremendous split among Democrats.	Peregrine Took	Jul 2012	#3
The abuse of authentic meritocracy is part of what HAS enslaved ALL of us. I'm old,	patrice	Jul 2012	#5
Workers need their own in-situ collectively developed job-specific evergreen merit assessment proces	patrice	Jul 2012	#6
Cowie says all of that was the end of the New Deal Coalition & the beginning of the Southern Strateg	patrice	Jul 2012	#7
But everyone doesn't start from the same place.	marmar	Jul 2012	#9
People who resent AA really don't understand what it does --	EFerrari	Jul 2012	#13
Pretty clear you don't know much about it either	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#17
i would like to meet some of these unqualified minority students who fail because of AA	EFerrari	Jul 2012	#18
There were any number of them in most of the big name schools, including Cal	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#19
So you say.	EFerrari	Jul 2012	#21
Please note that the Punahou graduate with less than stellar grades	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#22
Ah, the "Affirmative Action President" canard	Scootaloo	Jul 2012	#30
Just how fecking illiterate can you be?	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#33
Wait a minute. I graduated from Punahou ('68)	panader0	Jul 2012	#37
And your were probably better prepared for college than many other schools	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#39
WOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!	uponit7771	Jul 2012	#43
Lack of adequate preparation in high school is not the same as lack of adequate preparation by race.	Gormy Cuss	Jul 2012	#23
It has the same result...	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#24
No it doesn't, thats false...AA has nothing to do with quotas and that's what you're pushing logical	uponit7771	Jul 2012	#44
I am pushing nothing	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#51
To me it's not about "unqualified students" (everyone is qualified in a different way, imo).	Romulox	Jul 2012	#28
Clearly not everyone is qualified, especially at high end universities	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#34
American Universities don't even BEGIN to teach the skills necessary for life in the 21st century.	Romulox	Jul 2012	#40
I was referring to entrance qualifications and skills	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#49
Then that's the insititutions fault NOT AA....	uponit7771	Jul 2012	#45
For which definition of AA?	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#50
That has nothing to do with AA, that has more to do with racist memes than anything	uponit7771	Jul 2012	#42
It was the effect in the real world	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#52
We must comes to grips with the reality of a white underclass, then. To pretend it's all race is	Romulox	Jul 2012	#25
Yeah, it split off the Southern Democrats who couldn't accept that black people were citizens. n/t	EFerrari	Jul 2012	#11
I have mixed feelings.....	tpsbmam	Jul 2012	#31
You've not listened to both side of the issue either, you'd never thing it was unfair if the true	uponit7771	Jul 2012	#41
Since AA began in 1961 under JFK and the Voting Rights Act didn't even pass until later,	EFerrari	Jul 2012	#10
I've condensed about 50% of the book into that post. It was a much larger and longer process	patrice	Jul 2012	#12
I have to say that I probably agree more than I don't, though it may be close, with the	patrice	Jul 2012	#4
So was MLK Jr.'s	banned from Kos	Jul 2012	#14
that is RW disinformation	Enrique	Jul 2012	#47
I would like to see the focus of affirmative action change	SickOfTheOnePct	Jul 2012	#15
I'm wondering if we couldn't see that as a change in its priorities. A systematic relationship	patrice	Jul 2012	#16
Then you'd go back to race, seriously people...blacks and Hispanics didn't wake up and say lets be	uponit7771	Jul 2012	#46
You are correct, many of the same people that benefit now would continue to benefit	SickOfTheOnePct	Jul 2012	#54
how quaint	librechik	Jul 2012	#20
His sole purpose, and 'long game', is to serve corporations. Simple really. -eom	Huey P. Long	Jul 2012	#26
Roberts is a snake	Homer12	Jul 2012	#27
The last couple of posters have nailed it. Start by guessing which position most helps corporations	Romulox	Jul 2012	#29
I don't know what one thing has to do with the other	Orangepeel	Jul 2012	#35
CRA and VRA are enforced under the Commerce Clause, weakin that and you can get rid of those two law	uponit7771	Jul 2012	#48
Concur	ProgressiveProfessor	Jul 2012	#53

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