> Apparently brown babies are receiving their Ivy League acceptances stapled to birth certificates in the delivery rooms nowadays. You sign up for a lifetime of other systemic issues (Racism? Discrimination? No big), but hey, at least you’re going to Harvard.
This seems to imply that college is supposed to be the sort-of "invisible hand" hand that makes the whole world equal. Just because your parents/grandparents endured some hardships because of a prejudice society, I'm not sure how that ties into college acceptance (or should at least).
If a person earned a 4.5 GPA, they earned a 4.5 GPA. If I earn a dollar, is my dollar less valuable than a black person's dollar? No because it's earned all the same. Maybe I don't have a car and have to bike to work in freezing weather, where the black person has a nice warm car. But when I try to buy a burger with that earned dollar, will I get a discount because it was a little harder for me to earn that dollar?
This seems to imply that college is supposed to be the sort-of "invisible hand" hand that makes the whole world equal. Just because your parents/grandparents endured some hardships because of a prejudice society, I'm not sure how that ties into college acceptance (or should at least).
If a person earned a 4.5 GPA, they earned a 4.5 GPA. If I earn a dollar, is my dollar less valuable than a black person's dollar? No because it's earned all the same. Maybe I don't have a car and have to bike to work in freezing weather, where the black person has a nice warm car. But when I try to buy a burger with that earned dollar, will I get a discount because it was a little harder for me to earn that dollar?