It is one thing to argue that the time for affirmative action has passed, but it seems here you are arguing that it is necessarily fraudulent. In the case of MIT it is a mischaracterization to say that affirmative action dresses up economic inequality in the guise of egalitarianism. To accompany affirmative action it has since 1970 run the Interphase program, which according* to your guest Jim Gates, "gave me an accurate assessment of what I needed to do to be successful."
It will be necessary to follow a model like MIT's if a switch to affirmative action based on class is to succeed.
Glenn,
It is one thing to argue that the time for affirmative action has passed, but it seems here you are arguing that it is necessarily fraudulent. In the case of MIT it is a mischaracterization to say that affirmative action dresses up economic inequality in the guise of egalitarianism. To accompany affirmative action it has since 1970 run the Interphase program, which according* to your guest Jim Gates, "gave me an accurate assessment of what I needed to do to be successful."
It will be necessary to follow a model like MIT's if a switch to affirmative action based on class is to succeed.
*https://orlandomemory.info/people/oral-history-interview-with-professor-sylvester-james-gates-jr/