Foxygen@partizle.comtoWorld News@beehaw.org•Breaking: Supreme Court Shoots Down Affirmative Action.English
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1 year agoThat’s probably true, and for that matter, even if you imagine a truly colorblind society exists for the next 100 years, it seems likely that inherited wealth and privilege would still be passed down.
Having said that, AA was not a very good remedy. It laser focused on only one thing, sometimes disregarding a clear reality. In an extreme example, if you took someone like David Steward’s kids, they would benefit from affirmative action despite being born to a billionaire.
Keep in mind, colleges and universities can still provide all the advantages they want based on other signals. Good ones might be family income and first-generation college students.
This is probably one thing that Bluesky does well – you have the option (and are encouraged) to use your own domain name as a username, and you can do so without having to run an instance.