Oh no! Affirmative action!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I didn't get into the college I wanted to go to. I'm going to blame black people for it, because black people get an advantage in college admissions. How can something like this stand in America? This is supposed to be the land of opportunity not black people putting down white people. I understand that at one point in our history we were unfair to black people but that DOESN'T MEAN that we need to start imposing the EXACT same stuff back on us white people. It's not like I was alive to segregate black people in the 60s, so why do today's black people feel the need to try to segregate me into a worse college? It's just preposterous. Can I please get some confirmation of my views by other people who are afraid they won't get into the college of their choice because of the blacks/hispanics/first generation college students/poor people so that I can feel even more indignant? Thanks, and we're gonna fight this thing guys!</p>

<p>(Just for you Harvard people foaming at the mouth: I did get into the college I wanted.)</p>

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<p>I don’t understand what you’re trying to achieve.</p>

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<p>Isn’t AA illegal?
Or maybe i’m getting ahead of myself…</p>

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<p>Nice use of the straw man.
Bravo.</p>

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<p>WAIT.
You didn’t get into Yale, so you’re blaming black people?
Please, PLEASE tell me I’m wrong.</p>

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<p>psst… khaki’s post is pure sarcasm, albeit laden with argumentative fallacies.</p>

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<p>^
lol. Albeit Laden sounds like a terrorist if you pronounce albeit wrong…
sorry.
:)</p>

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<p>i likes yale :)</p>

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<p>I likes blacks in Yale<3.</p>

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<p>AA is pretty disgusting, tbh. “Oh, you’re stupid and undeserving of even the moost rudimentary comforts of life? have a cookie.”</p>

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<p>(10ch)</p>

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<p>iEatReeds, its not so confusing. basically, AA s just rewarding those who don’t deserve it. encouraging, even allowing such poor performance shouldn’t be allowed.</p>

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<p>OP’s sarcasm is too over the top and fail. Also, it is full of logical and argumentative fallacies. Therefore, his point is moot.</p>

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<p>Even more fail is the inability of people here to pick up the sarcasm.</p>

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<p>as soon as i saw the first sentence and that the OP is going to Yale, i knew the post was not serious. lol</p>

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<p>To say it allows for those LESS deserving, at times, to get further ahead would be more acceptable.</p>

<p>Who’s to say all aided by it are less deserving than those that it overpasses?</p>

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<p>no someone told me i lost my sarcasm detector =/</p>

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<p>Precisely.</p>

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<p>if just one person were to undeservingly benefit, its wrong. putting the principles aside, AA is also flawed in its approach of the problem. AA would work better if socioeconomic status, not race, were evaluated.</p>

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<p>your statements don’t make sense at all…yes AA is flawed in some ways, but to say that people are undeserving is just not a fair statement</p>