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Bassoe
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Terthna
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A price will be extracted eventually; even if it ends up being their children who are left having to foot the bill for their parents perpetrating a blood feud.
mrttao
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Peaceful protests + just day to day crime.
mrttao
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did scotus actually say that?
Affirmative action: US Supreme Court overturns race-based college admissions
The landmark decision strikes down decades-old policies defended as a way to boost diversity.
www.bbc.com
seems like they did
Affirmative action: US Supreme Court overturns race-based college admissions
The landmark decision strikes down decades-old policies defended as a way to boost diversity.
seems like they did
The question is: what happens now?
Do the liberals run around screaming as if a big spaceship just landed on their world and Galactus stepped out?
Or will they simply ignore the SCOTUS ruling and keep on following their AA policies?
The answer is both. A number of states have already stated they are going to work with their higher ed facilities to ensure equity is maintained in the face of this totally racist decision by SCOTUS. (I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of most of the comments I'm seeing.)
Bear Ribs
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The "fix" I'm seeing thrown around now is to go by neighborhood and assign more points to blacker, poorer neighborhoods.
I'm cautiously optimistic about that because the people in those neighborhoods genuinely need help, and it will help people of other races who happen to live there.
It could also have hilarious knock-on effects if the aggressive education-uber-alles Asian faction takes advantage. There've already been cases where schools started handing out scholarships by high school, with most going to the poorer, blacker schools. This policy was followed the next day by swarms of high-performance Asian students transferring to low-budget ghetto schools. We could see a strange form of gentrification as the poorest and blackest neighborhoods suddenly get a large influx of other races looking to gain a college advantage.
But I mean if that happened? It would break up the ghettos and probably improve the situation for all involved so that could potentially have some very good results.
LordsFire
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I don't think that's very likely, because it doesn't do anything about the root causes of ghettoficiation, and further, it's already been amply demonstrated that it's fairly socially acceptable for blacks to go on racist pogroms against asians.
It only takes a few percent of the black population being willing to be violent against asians for things to get really, *really* ugly.
Plus, the people who'd be trying to implement these workarounds aren't acting in good faith in the first place, and they'd be incensed that asian students dare 'push out' what otherwise would have been black valedictorians, scholarship receivers, etc, etc.
Fire is telling the truth the LA riots saw a lot of rioters deliberately target koreans and other asians.
Bear Ribs
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I'll grant that's valid, violence is always going to be an issue. Though, while Asians are generally not fond of guns, Rooftop Koreans are a meme for a reason and it also only takes a few percent of Asians taking defensive measures to counter that violence. Things will likely be bloody temporarily for sure, and in places where the law isn't enforced by authorities very ugly, but in any area where there's still a rule of law things should tamp down relatively quickly. If the schools prioritize students from areas where violence is the answer to all problems and the authorities make no effort to curb that violence, well, the schools are going to deserve what they get.
The schools aren't going to be acting in good faith but they are also going to be constrained by the laws, if they aren't allowed to take race into account they are going to have to find other workarounds and, this is important, Asian cultures love malicious compliance and have a strong cultural history of finding loopholes and exploits in externally imposed rules in order to mess with them (see: Japan's tentacle porn and the crazy efforts Asian cultures went to to invent new forms of playing cards to keep ahead of censorship). Even if the schools don't act in good faith, faced with anything except the existing "Put down people for the crime of being Asian" the Asian cultures are going to constantly adapt and find the weak points in the schools' policies.
I disagree that this doesn't do anything about ghettofication. The root cause is the middle class and all the motivated people leaving a neighborhood because it doesn't offer anything, leaving only the poorest and least motivated people behind. If there's an advantage to be had from being there, motivated and middle-class people will come in causing the ghetto to gentrify automatically.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
...Democrat control of areas, and refusal to effectively enforce the law is one of the leading causes of ghettoification. Cracking down on people who try to defend themselves when the law refuses to is another.
Middle class flight from what become ghettos is a symptom, not a cause.
Bear Ribs
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Disagree. Ghettoization is a direct result of the rise of Suburbia. It began in the late fifties and early sixties, when automobiles became widespread. The rapid adoption of the automobile after WW2 created the industries necessary allowed people to commute long distances to work. Simultaneously, the Baby Boom made larger families the norm, and small apartments too small and cramped for most middle-class families. This led them to move out of the congested cities into suburbs where they had more space, more privacy, and a better lifestyle. In turn, the inner cities were left with only the people who were too poor or too unmotivated to upgrade to Suburbia, turning inner cities into Ghettos.
While modern leftist policies haven't helped a bit, this process happened before the solid leftist hold on inner-city politics formed, and it happened even to cities that had conservative leadership in the fifties. Los Angeles, f'rex, had Republican mayors from 1933 to 1961, when the lion's share of its ghettoization happened.
And a meme to stay on topic...
