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0 pointsJensson3y ago0 comments

> But “social justice” is definitely not a foundational belief of the elite

The selection committees at universities certainly believes in social justice or they wouldn't consider race so heavily for admissions.

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astrange3y ago· 3 in thread

It’s mostly an excuse to accept fewer Asians, just as personality and interviews used to be one to not accept Jews.

ZeroGravitas3y ago

So they care about social justice, which is bad, and they are only pretending to care about social justice, which is bad, and they use it as cover to do the opposite of social justice, which is also bad.

So, higher education is definately bad, and whether social justice is bad or not depends on whether you open the box and find out if the cat is a Republican or a Democrat?

dale_glass3y ago

> So they care about social justice, which is bad, and they are only pretending to care about social justice, which is bad

That's P ^ !P, which is a contradiction. Your reading doesn't make any sense.

ZeroGravitas3y ago

I'm pointing out the contradiction in this ongoing "political correctness/woke" backlash.

They're complaining about people doing the right thing. And they know that. So they have to complain they're doing the right thing wrong, or doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Or the right thing is only a cover for a nefarious plot.

Which only re-inforces that it's the right thing, even before you examine the decades long track record of people arguing against it.

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