Qasim Rashid, Esq.Apr 13, 2024

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My TL is full of conservatives who don't understand how Affirmative Action worked.

Three points

1. The demographic that benefitted MOST from AA—more than Black, Latino, & Asians COMBINED—are white women.

2. AA was NEVER about accepting unqualified people, it was always about ensuring underrepresented qualified people ALSO had a fair shot at acceptance. Universities systemically discriminated against non-white applicants. AA required them to also consider non-white applicants.

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3. While conservatives protested the 8% Black students at Harvard, Legacy Admissions accounted for 43% of white students to Harvard, & 75% of those students Would Not Have Qualified On Merit.

But no protest? I wonder why?đŸ€”

The facts don't lie. The movement to repeal Affirmative Action, ban DEI (as dozens of states have), & demonize CRT—was never about merit & was never about qualifications. It was always about reviving Jim Crow white supremacy.

And the scary part is—so far—it's working.

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Show threadLukasApr 13, 2024
@QasimRashid the fact that there are legacy admissions and these decades of discussions weren't about those is what really confuses me.
Show thread@stevewfoldsApr 13, 2024
@ivorytusk @QasimRashid My guess about non-qualified legacy admissions at Harvard is more money for the $49 billion endowment fund.
Show threadReneeVoiceBrandApr 13, 2024
@QasimRashid Whenever someone has the audacity to use the words 'WOKE' and 'DEI" I respond with 'WOKE is an acronym for We Ostracize Klan Enthusiasts' and 'DEI stands for Determination in Experimentation and Innovation.' My responses always seems to shut 'em up or confuse them.
Show threadexoplanetaryApr 13, 2024
@QasimRashid Yeah, the way I’ve always described it is a “band-aid fix.” In an ideal world race wouldn’t have any factor in college admissions, but the fact is that whether from socioeconomic circumstances or otherwise, minorities DIDN’T have a fair shot at getting into universities and AA was intended to fix that.
Getting rid of AA before solving the underlying problem is ripping off the band-aid while the wound’s fresh, and just brings back the discrimination that it was intended to prevent.
Show threadDaniel BrotherstonApr 14, 2024

@QasimRashid Pretty obviously...the people with power...you know, that run the media, etc., who might create outrage....

Those people...TO THEM....whiteness, legacy....those things ARE merit.

Show threadNuncio Bitis đŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ đŸ‡”đŸ‡ž đŸ‡ș🇩Apr 14, 2024
@QasimRashid Shut down ivy league schools and make them public state schools.
Show threadQoleApr 14, 2024
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Combining your two quoted percentages, that 75% of 43% aren't qualified, that's 32% of accepted white applicants are not qualified! One third!
Show threadAndrewApr 15, 2024
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I am shocked about that percentage of Legacy students. Especially, since most of them would not have got in with their grades