Mastodawn

girlfreddy Aug 1, 2023

Does Texas A&M’s botched hire spell doom for classroom diversity? Some say yes

https://sh.itjust.works/post/2047502

Does Texas A&M’s botched hire spell doom for classroom diversity? Some say yes - sh.itjust.works

Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on college campuses next year.

Show thread

Blamemeta Aug 1, 2023

The new state law just says you can’t accept a student based on the race of the applicant.

Do yall honestly have a problem with outlawing systemic racism?

Show thread

LexiconDexicon Aug 1, 2023

Affirmative Action helped get rid of all white classrooms and workplaces, it worked. Taking it away means we’re just going to go back to an all white America. I’m sorry to tell you this but people are not inherently good or bad, we have to make laws like AA otherwise things would never change. We had to force the South to desegregate at gun point

A deeply racist state like Texas is never going to have racial equality without being forced to, just like the South was never going to desegregate unless forced to

And in California where they got rid of AA in 1996, Black attendance in higher education immediately dropped and it hasn’t even recovered yet to what it was before 1996

Show thread

NOT_RICK Aug 1, 2023

I think there is a way to do a form of economic AA that factors in the applicant’s background in a way that doesn’t bucket them by race. It could still help historically marginalized groups without having to codify anything by race. Not saying I’m against AA, it was an important tool in partially fixing the systemic racism in America, but maybe there’s a different way of doing it?

Show thread

chaogomu

The thing is, the white supremacists have had their thumb on the economic scales since the beginning of the country.

Rich white conservatives will actually spend more money making sure minorities fail, than they would earn if they worked with minorities for the common good.

The saying is, a raising tide lifts all boats, but the conservative addition is punching a hole in the minority boat, even if it stops the overall tide, just so their boat can be higher.