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b_b · 536 days ago · link · · parent · post: "How much this will matter for colleges and universities is unclear."
My issue with the diversity argument has always been that it supplanted the thing that affirmative action was supposed to do, which is, more or less, reparations. The two black students I had over the years who went to Ivy leagues could have gotten in without any aide from diversity scoring, but each was the child of immigrants, not descendants of slaves. So the school gets to notch its pistol without actually helping anyone. That’s why even though I think it’s a right wing red herring talking point, I still believe that socioeconomic diversity is a better metric than racial diversity for actually trying to advantage the disadvantaged.