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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
It's inaccurate to say he was rejected at the schools as there's no evidence he applied to them previously before choosing to commit fraud. But hey, why let the pesky little details get in the way of one's personal agenda?
Read the piece I link to below, Rupert, if you can handle anything not from a right-wing source. The writer's got a bit of a potty mouth, but she includes an awful lot of details that the right-wing sources you're reading this from have opted to leave out.
http://reappropriate.co/?p=8281 |
Did the author even read the story? It said specifically that he was turned down from SLU when he applied as Asian/Indian. Then when he used a different name and said he was black he got accepted with the exact same application.
Your article was a typical liberal piece in that it attacked the victim and tried to make him look like a real bad guy. The author was furious at Vijay because he exposed the truth about how ridiculous affirmative action is. If she wants to defend affirmative action, that is fine. She should make her case for it. But to attack this guy is silly. When you think about it, Vijay didn't really tell us anything new. He just presented us with the details of his specific story. But we already know that this goes on. Dellinger showed the statistics. There is nothing for you to dispute. You can attack the messenger but that is just a smokescreen. It doesn't change the facts about affirmative action. The statistics speak for themselves.
If you are in favor of affirmative action that is ok. You are entitled to your opinion. I don't understand why you and the author don't just say that you think it is a good thing that Vijay got accepted as a black man but not as an Asian/Indian man. Why would Vijay's story be hard to believe considering that Dellinger's statistics show that this kind of thing happens all the time?
By the way, the true opinion of you and the author makes a lot of sense. Your opinions are basically that people with dark skin should get a special break, but only people with a certain type of dark skin. That is basically what you are saying, if you believe that the current system is fine in that an Asian/Indian man should not get the special treatment but an African American man should get the special treatment.