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Listen, I know it's a huge challenge to ask a conservative to think mathematically, but just make an effort for once. The reason it's called "affirmative action" is that it's not negative. It doesn't take anything away from anybody. https://t.co/w4mRTykC7Q
— Per Yaspera ad Astra (@Yastreblyansky) March 8, 2023
Suppose, for instance, 5 out of 100 mediocre white students (with the same range of LSAT scores etc.) can expect to be admitted to a given law school. Each has a 5% chance of making it. If the school decides to admit one Black student in that range (out of 100 applicants)...
— Per Yaspera ad Astra (@Yastreblyansky) March 9, 2023
...these differences in the odds are just infinitesimal for each individual. It's a crap shoot for everybody. The decision to accept a few Black students affects you almost not at all.
— Per Yaspera ad Astra (@Yastreblyansky) March 9, 2023
Disclosure: I still am kind of pissed off that Harvard turned me down some
decades ago, but I don't blame them, and I'm happy to add that the public
institutions on three continents at which I have studied and taught in the
course of my life have all offered tremendous opportunities to learn, if not
entrée to the best country clubs.
But it's really not about me, and also not about you, and even more, dare I say it, not about the white person who failed to make it into the University of Michigan law school who still thinks he was robbed. It's about groups of people, and that's why conservatives have a mental block about it. Also because, as ever, they're just too emotional.
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