I have far too many thoughts on this to be able to communicate them all fully, with the necessary nuance and depth. That disclaimer aside... I listened to the entire podcast AND read Roland Fryer's NYT piece first, BTW.
Easy stuff first. Those who decry the SCOTUS majority decision, including the members of the SCOTUS who dissented, have to believe one thing. Black and Latino students are not now, and will never be, capable of competing with white, and by extension, Asian students, on the basis of supposedly meritocratic rubrics. That is a startling admission, but absolutely factual! It is also depressing. Even if you believe that historical reasons justify supposed differences in performance against current meritocratic rubrics, one simply has to believe these differences are fixable. Or are we saying, again, that Black and Latino students can never measure up? Are we saying, conversely, that Asian students are (genetically) intellectually superior? If not, then no justification can be found for continuing to admit Blacks and Latino students at lower performance quartiles. None. Zero.
And, if that is true, the best course of action, the ONLY truly informed and egalitarian alternative, is to fix the issue. That includes no longer using the ostensible affirmative action. Fryer's ideas are good in this regard, but I wonder if it cannot be done more simply. Asians did not ascend to ostensible academic prominence due to feeder schools. (As an obvious aside, Blacks did not ascend to dominate the NBA due to special dribbling academies either. 😁) Simply put, remove the guardrails for everyone and let's see what happens. We Black folks can close any gap we desire, and we don't need virtue signaling, protective benevolence narrative encumbered, white people to nurture us along. That might sound salty, but it is what it is. I stand by it.
I have far too many thoughts on this to be able to communicate them all fully, with the necessary nuance and depth. That disclaimer aside... I listened to the entire podcast AND read Roland Fryer's NYT piece first, BTW.
Easy stuff first. Those who decry the SCOTUS majority decision, including the members of the SCOTUS who dissented, have to believe one thing. Black and Latino students are not now, and will never be, capable of competing with white, and by extension, Asian students, on the basis of supposedly meritocratic rubrics. That is a startling admission, but absolutely factual! It is also depressing. Even if you believe that historical reasons justify supposed differences in performance against current meritocratic rubrics, one simply has to believe these differences are fixable. Or are we saying, again, that Black and Latino students can never measure up? Are we saying, conversely, that Asian students are (genetically) intellectually superior? If not, then no justification can be found for continuing to admit Blacks and Latino students at lower performance quartiles. None. Zero.
And, if that is true, the best course of action, the ONLY truly informed and egalitarian alternative, is to fix the issue. That includes no longer using the ostensible affirmative action. Fryer's ideas are good in this regard, but I wonder if it cannot be done more simply. Asians did not ascend to ostensible academic prominence due to feeder schools. (As an obvious aside, Blacks did not ascend to dominate the NBA due to special dribbling academies either. 😁) Simply put, remove the guardrails for everyone and let's see what happens. We Black folks can close any gap we desire, and we don't need virtue signaling, protective benevolence narrative encumbered, white people to nurture us along. That might sound salty, but it is what it is. I stand by it.