Good for him. I agree with him. I think all college scholerships should be merit or need based. There are alot of poor minorities, but I have seen to often a minority student getting into college, with half or less the work a poor white kid has done, when that white kid can't. The idea of affermitive action was to level the playing field, not to punish white males by making them the oppressed.
The cure for bigotry isn't to retarget it; all too often affirmative action seems like painting a different colour onto the "whites only" sign.
Base the requirement on need and merit, not some social artifact like "race".
-- Steve's glad that this is considered controversial, but is dismayed that it's controversial because of the "race" of the beneficiary as opposed to the idea of doling out scholarships by "race".
I can understand how this guy felt. After walking around campus during clubs week and seeing that many of the clubs are ethnic or racial in nature (asian students association, black students association etc...) I found myself wondering what would happen if someone started a caucasian students association.
Why is it that things like these are only considered racist if the demographic is white?
Sidenote - women only gyms, etc. Picture the reaction to a men only gym, etc...
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Date: 2006-11-28 02:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-28 03:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-28 09:47 pm (UTC)The last time a College Republican chapter tried something like this -- you know, the one that this group admitted to basing this event on -- pretty much the exact same thing happened.
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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Date: 2006-11-28 06:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-28 07:15 pm (UTC)Base the requirement on need and merit, not some social artifact like "race".
-- Steve's glad that this is considered controversial, but is dismayed that it's controversial because of the "race" of the beneficiary as opposed to the idea of doling out scholarships by "race".
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Date: 2006-11-28 11:45 pm (UTC)Why is it that things like these are only considered racist if the demographic is white?
Sidenote - women only gyms, etc. Picture the reaction to a men only gym, etc...