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Originally posted by Hakan@Dec 12 2004, 01:59 PM
You're right, this argument does sound ridiculous. The whole poor discriminated against white guy argument is so fallacious and backwards that I can't believe people still bring that up anymore. Listen, the reason that poor and aboriginal and whomever else gets to have favourable admission policies to university is because of a wholly deplorable lack of representation of those people in university institutions. Is that because they're lazy or just don't have what it takes? No, it's because they've been beaten down from the beginning over real sociological differences in priviledge and from historical legacies of discrimination and oppression (see: residential schools). And frankly, I'm quite glad to have gone to a university where it wasn't 100% white men and women but had a diversity of ethnicities and backgrounds.
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I would be much more happy to attend a university where you were admitted based on academic qualifications and not based on whether or not you are a minority or not. Allowing people in to universities with lower admission requirements because of the color of their skin or economic background does nobody any favors not the students you let in, not the students that are already there and certainly not the more qualified white students that may be excluded.