one of the more annoying anti-SJ voices on my facebook newsfeed:
In fact, that trial showed that the University of Texas system is not racist in their affirmative action. They use residential segregation as a basis rather than race. It’s an example of a great affirmative action system to reduce residential segregation
like, just the fact that people who are opposed to affirmative action because it’s racial discrimination are fine with discriminating on other things whose sole purpose is to serve as a noisy proxy for race
I mean no one is pretending this is not the case. The Economist:
For nearly two decades, UT has filled some 75% of its seats with Texas public-high-school students who finished in the top 10% of their graduating classes. This rule, adopted by the Texas legislature in 1997, was intended to increase black and Hispanic enrolment in the UT system.
the idea that anything that has disparate impact on different groups is discriminatory is dumb but at least it’s less dumb than this