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Back when I was in high school, I stumbled upon the University of Michigan's Web site. On it was an "online calculator" of my chances of being admitted. I keyed in my stats, extracurriculars, community service activities and race, and according to the calculator, I would have had a 99 percent chance of admission to the University of Michigan if I were African American, Latino or Native American. If I had been white, I would have only had a moderately high chance of being accepted. But as a member of the Asian race, my chances of being accepted were the lowest among all the groups.
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<p>Affirmative action nothing more than racism. In an attempt to make a school more diverse, universities resort to affirmative action to skew statistics by accepting less than stellar minority applicants. More qualified Asian and white students are disadvantaged when compared to URMs with inferior stats due to an uncontrollable variable such as race. Times have changed in America but the idea of punishing certain applicants due to race and rewarding certain races (hispanics, blacks, native americans) is alive and well.
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<p>The notion that Asians and Whites are spoiled, rich suburbanites is untrue and stereotypical on certain levels. I'm confused as to what proponents of affirmative action are trying to say. Is it that an impoverished Iraqi or Korean or, gasp, white kid working 40 hours a week should be discriminated against because stereotypically "his people" are rich Long Islanders and "under represented minorities" are all poor students who can't get through life on their own? Asians and whites have equal chances of being disadvantaged in life compared their URM counterparts. In this case, is the poor Asian or white who pulls themselves up by their own bootstraps who is disadvantaged then the Black, Latino, or Native American whom relies on Affirmative Action to get ahead in life. Don't get me wrong, a traditionally under represented minority deserves an equal fighting chance, however Affirmative Action isn't the correct path to achieve this.So why is it that this blatant reverse racism is allowed to continue? Fighting racism with racism is like fighting fire with fire, it is pointless and futile.</p>
<p>AA threads are so over-saturated it’s not funny. I think we all can agree that we’d rather be accepted on our individual merits and skills without race as a factor. /thread.</p>
<p>I’m not reading this because I’m not here to post my views on AA. I’m commenting because of your use of the term “reverse racism.” That term implies that racism only goes one way (perhaps implying something specifically about blacks and whites, but at least implying that only the majority can be prejudiced towards a minority). That’s not how racism works.</p>
<p>gShut up, who cares, stop whinning about everything in life. There’s nothing you can do about it so stop complaining. All CC’ers do is nag. There’s many things in life that aren’t fair but that’s life. You want total equality, move to a communist state.</p>
<p>I’ll just say this: I’m from South AFrica, and I’m white. I’ve encountered racism here in America (TN) because people thought I was unable to complete a task because of my race/heritage. I have also been declined for minority positions because of my skin color, but my racial and cultural heritage is very very unique and different to that of America’s. </p>
<p>Just to completely confuse matters :D. AA is a joke, lets all just work hard and get in where we should. Also, lets not waste time arguing about it. Can ANYTHING good come from this? No.</p>
There aren’t any, haha. Plus, Communism would have to be a world system to properly function. Or at least in a community COMPLETELY isolated from all others. In which case, knowing about it and going there would be quite difficult.</p>
<p>I just had this discussion twice in school. I come on this site and see it again. We have a bunch of them on this site and thousands on other forums. </p>
<p>And what is the link to the “online calculator” I can’t seem to find it.</p>
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<li>There’s no such thing as reverse racism.</li>
<li>It’s mainly white people who have control over affirmative action in the first place.</li>
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