It makes perfect sense. We've traded one group that it is socially and politically ok to hate based on their skin color in for another.

I guess the idea that we should stop with race based discrimination altogether is too novel yet. So long as this is the case, the cycle will continue to repeat.

The topic of Affirmative Action, or race- conscious admissions in general has nothing to do with entitlement. Conflating the two is the sloppy thinking I'm referring to.

>It makes perfect sense. We've traded one group that it is socially and politically ok to hate based on their skin color in for another.

Let's not conflate the hatred leveled on Blacks which kept them out of higher education to not wanting your school full of bookworms (generalization, but I'm just making a point). This is just more sloppy thinking from you folks.

>Let's not conflate the hatred leveled on Blacks which kept them out of higher education to not wanting your school full of bookworms...

That's just a rationalization.

Jerry Pournelle is fond of saying something to the effect of "Back in the '60s people thought I was a radical because I said we shouldn't discriminate based on skin color. Today people think I'm a radical because... I say we shouldn't discriminate based on skin color."

I'd have been a radical then and I'm apparently a radical now. Sigh.

That's not sloppy thinking at all. It's just straightforward logic. You're not even making an attempt to argue the point. Because you can't.

The topic of Affirmative Action, or race- conscious admissions in general has nothing to do with entitlement. Conflating the two is the sloppy thinking I'm referring to.

Unfortunately "sloppy thinking" pretty accurately describes the liberal orthodoxy that runs elite colleges.