College Student Finds Out Just How UNFAIR Affirmative Action ACTUALLY Is

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[@robertyoungs3181]

Never forget that in order to give that spot to an affirmative action individual, someone who worked hard to be in that spot was discriminated against.

[@nobody8717]

i could have saved 20% on my school costs, if i would have lied and said i was latino. that's what AA did for me.

[@dovely9279]

​@@nobody8717Liz Warren knew what she was doing.

[@thomassicard3733]

Really? LOL!!! You must reconsider.

[@TheKeefeStone]

@@thomassicard3733 How? AA is a Direct admittance that people who need AA are LESS THAN the people who don't need it. Kind of like uh...the old klan stereotypes that said black people are less intelligent than everybody else. & wouldn't you know it? White liberals institute policies that are direct reflections of that racist BS? LMFAO

[@Rabestern]

Affirmative action is institutionalized racism. It discriminate ppl based on their race and it is done by institutions. Only in america you have White, Black, Asians, and so on but thjose are not races. Those are groups of races. Tecnically russians are considered White but they are also asians. People from India and South Africa are in same group but they are not same race. Collor of skin is only influenced by amount of light on skin through centuries. Collor of skin is not marker of race. I know it is easier to group ppl by skin collor but in reality it is dumb.

[@marayoung]

Affirmative action is giving privileges to an specific group of people, while discriminating against another group of people, and believing it’s for the greater good 🙄

[@AcmeRacing]

Ibrahim Kendi explicitly says just that. It's one of the points he asserts in _How To Be An Antiracist._

[@AcmeRacing]

I found the quote. "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." -- Ibrahim X. Kendi

[@ashleyanderson6392]

I understood it as giving privileges to a specific group( trying not to appear discriminating esp politaclly).. but literally to that sect of people only.. therefore singleing them out.. the projects? Hoods? That all started bc of affirmative actions. Smh.. to offer help, has hurt and made our "differences" even more apparent..but who cares bc at the end of the day we're all here in one nation under God. And brace yo selves..bc we got ALOT more people flooding in thanks to our biden patrol ehem I mean border patrol.. or lack there of.. we haven't seen anything yet

[@factsoverfeelings1776]

@@AcmeRacing Discrimination is discrimination. Racism is racism. Both are not only not good for society they are illegal.

[@MrJardiver]

that sums it up nicely.

[@joanna400]

You can define Affirmative action... it's very simply giving someone preferential treatment based upon the color of their skin. It's not based on the individual being disadvantaged. A person might be black with a doctor father and lawyer mother, and still get preference over a poor caucasian or Asian.

[@tommack9395]

Exactly, in layman terms it's the manipulation of a system to instill and install quotas.

[@survivorsfederation4346]

They could be the love child of Oprah and Barack Obama and only have to score half what a first generation Chinese refuge has to score to get into the same college, it’s dumb and by definition it’s just racism pointed away from black people.

[@joanna400]

@@tommack9395 right. If it was a quota based on family income, I could be more onboard. But quotas based on appearance and color, It's absolutely wrong. There is a lot of underprivileged given a solid no based on skin. I really think that's wrong.

[@michaelcurl9817]

It's hatred of white people and getting revenge.

[@DemelicosHelsaint]

Close, however, it is not limited to color/race. It is any immutable characteristic.

[@annfrost3323]

Every spot taken under affirmative action by a unworthy person, displaces another person who had earned that spot on their own merit and hard work.

[@samvittighedsfuld7586]

Affirmative action is only hard to describe if you don't want it to stink of something bad. It's just government sanctioned discrimination based on immutable characteristics.

[@chrish7336]

True, but unlike the current political propaganda, this Sanctioned systemic Racism it isn't against black people. That said, when it was implemented it was needed, not so much anymore.

[@mike53153]

Exactly.

[@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm]

Basicly they force and thus fake statistics by blainzently saying Asians are to smart so they gotta score higher, and black people are to dumb for the standard so they get to score lower. We will also just deny the best qualified for diversity instead of investing in the actual isdue wich is fixing up those neighbourhoods, fixing the cultiral issue that creates this. AA is just way simpler and cheaper.

[@Aughtel]

Hence why they use word salad. As long as it sounds smart. I'm always so confused when they speak, then someone dumbs it down to 10 words or less and I'm thinking why not just say that? Oh yeah, bcuz it sounded pretty bad.

[@OneWorldGovernment2030-yv3zc]

What they want it to sound like "Someone who is poor but really smart and has really good grades(that he earned and wasn't given for being a certain color)." What it really is "Someone who is not whyte even tho he doesn't really have the qualification or the work ethics."

[@GenericUsername1388]

As a white person from South Africa, we have actual laws that make it much easier for black people not only to get into college or university but to get jobs as well. It's why so many of our white population is forced to leave for having no job opportunities here

[@Christine-ry1qq]

Hey 👋 We’ve been spending our winters in ZA for many many years and have really seen a huge decline across most sectors in the last ten years. Even in the service sector Nobody cares nobody wants to serve you nobody gets back to you with requested information The running of the water and electricity grids has declined beyond belief I think this year will be our last Im afraid 😱 Such a shame to see a marvellous country racing to the bottom all through affirmative action and ignoring meritocracy xx

[@rav-tv372]

It’s reverse apartide (spelling)

[@GenericUsername1388]

@@rav-tv372 I won't say it's as bad as apartheid but it does feel like we're slowly heading in that direction

[@alanj9978]

Also why you can no longer keep the power on.

[@Migratoryprimate]

@@GenericUsername1388 Was apartheid honestly that bad? Looking at the actual results, not the story we're constantly told on the news.

[@dude8223]

Check this out. I worked for the DOC. A higher paid position came open, a advancement in rank. I had the most seniority, made the highest on the test score, but they gave it to a black guy i trained who was not qualified. But wait, 4 more positions came open, all Lieutenant jobs. 4 more times i took the test, made the highest score and had seniority. And 4 more times they gave the positions to black guys i trained. I was finally told they had to create those positions because of affirmation action. The govt required a certain number of ppl based on race get the job. They said the next Lieutenant positions to come up would be mine. But i quit the day after the 5th promotion was given based on race. And it was good i did. 4 months later one of the black Lieutenant screwed up so bad he caused a riot. Served them right for passing over a qualified person to give it to a unqualified person based on race.

[@mikiandfriends1820]

Basically like saying, you guys are useless, we can just hire anyone to do your job. So we gonna hire a woman who is just happens one of the manager's wife. She will do no work, cause trouble and be promoted in 6 months.

[@ripvanwinkle9648]

Understand completely. Been passed over for positions multiple times in the past for someone of color, only to see that exact same position become open again months later -- rinse --- repeat. At my current workplace, individuals of color are allowed to get away with basically anything, and not get fired. There are so many people of color that work at this place and are wonderful human beings, but the few who are outright cancers to the company (and know they are protected) continue to make working life Hell for those who don't bow before them. They revel in their ability to do evil, turning it into a game where the only losers are those who refuse to kiss their butts.

[@ourcreativebeehive]

My husband tested again and again to be a firefighter. He finally found out that he tested as #1 almost every time, but he was pushed down to below #10 every time because he wasn't a minority or female. He never became a firefighter.

[@Nempo13]

@@ourcreativebeehive I don't want female fire fighters. Almost none of them can do a proper fire carry. People's lives are on the line. Don't let women get by with a drag, if they can't carry what amounts to the average full grown male on their shoulders and still move at a decent pace to get out of a building, they should not be in the job...period. It is bad enough how bad the military has lowered standards to allow women in. I have no problem with women who can pass the exact same test as men. You prove you can do the job, you can do the job. If even one thing needs changed to allow you to be there, you cannot do the job.

[@RichPoorGrl]

Black privilege

[@smileydan2815]

Affirmative action- Handing someone something they did not earn. They are not helping anyone. They are hurting at least 2 people every time this happens.

[@derp8575]

DEI = Didn't earn it

[@SaraAllen-ui5wz]

I can define Affirmative Action in 5 words: Mandated bigotry of low expectation.

[@beatricepineda5923]

Nice definition. Very condescending to one group and discriminatory towards another.

[@SaraAllen-ui5wz]

@@beatricepineda5923 with undefined and limitless groups Divide and Conquer

[@padraig5335]

​@@beatricepineda5923Good

[@junderwood6633]

People are starting to see the light of the soft bigotry of low expectations that the left so enjoys. It's not just affirmative action, either. It's in almost all aspects of government tan things

[@derp8575]

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[@Infectd]

The young man that runs this channel has a level head and great critical thinking skills. Much respect.

[@Zeroscifer]

This is the most simplistic way I can put how unfair Affirmative Action is and woke culture in general... I lived on the street and starved for a good while, I pulled myself up got myself off the street even into college which I paid for myself. I am now successful and I told how I am in my place due to white privilege(I am 2nd gen immigrant). My son is half white half Chinese and I have done everything in my power to teach him so he is ahead of everyone in his class, but on a college assessment due to affirmative action Obama's kids/grandkids would get in before my child as my child is more privileged than obama's.... I mean honestly how can you spin this a fair in any way.

[@Real_LiamOBryan]

Can't. The political leaders know this, too.

[@skiman863]

The pendulum swings both ways. Greedy people will keep pushing it so they can keep using it to make money.

[@chrish7336]

@@skiman863 I would rather deal with greed than unequal treatment. unfortunately certain groups want both, unequal treatment and greed.

[@PeterDivine]

​@@chrish7336...but greed in this case will inevitably beget unequal treatment. It's inevitable and undeniable.

[@chrish7336]

@@PeterDivine I agree, unfortunately you can't stop greed without removing the money. This is why we are a Free MArket Economy. Also while being a capitalistic Economy it does open up to greed, but the buyers can control that if they so desire due to being a Free Market Economy. Outsourcing IMO is the biggest problem right now in the economy. The USA has become dependant on the world instead of being independent.

[@michaelrobinson1059]

The fact is, two parents in every home and Sundays in church would do 1000 times more for all communities than affirmative action.

[@michaelrobinson1059]

Yep

[@jmerced]

I totally agree with you. Children must be raised with consequences and right and wrong must be defined. Religion helps to do that.

[@gtbigdog3507]

Preach brt

[@shinrapresident7010]

@@jmerced Oh yeah, that's why there's infanticide, genocide and slavery condoned in religion.

[@derekrobertson9583]

​@shinrapresident7010 being condoned right now in secular society. Maybe religions are seeing the world the way it is rather than looking through the lens of your utopia.

[@rizon72]

Affirmative action is one of those things which sounds good, had good intent, but reality was really racist.

[@chrish7336]

When it was implemented it was needed. That is not the case anymore.

[@factsoverfeelings1776]

@@chrish7336 Racism is NOT "needed".

[@mikiandfriends1820]

Yeah, and what about #2 ? Lots of advantages for "colored", but what about Indians? What about mixed? Whata out older or younger?

[@jimjohnson394]

I question the "had good intent" part. Politicians care about nothing but getting reelected.

[@RudeDogRanch]

Growing up in Southern California in the 70s and 80s both my husband and brother couldn’t even apply to law enforcement or fire/rescue jobs because they were the wrong color. Affirmative action has always been a bitter reality in my family.

[@animeyhem9780]

Affirmative action is the racism of low expectations. It's telling a certain group of people, "You can't make it on your own, you need our help to reach what others do on their own" is its mantra.

[@TheLiamis]

Yep. Imagine being a black guy who worked hard and put the effort in only to then live your life wondering if you actually earned your achievements or were they just given to you. It's a terrible evil thing pretending to be virtuous.

[@animeyhem9780]

@@TheLiamis that's not the real evil...here's where it really hurts. Imagine for a moment you are a young minority who's worked hard and diligently to improve yourself, and you score well enough on the SAT to show you would likely graduate in the top 30% at your local state college/university. Instead, you get accepted by an Ivy League college where your unadjusted score puts you in the bottom 30% of graduating students. Now you're in a place where you're having to struggle just to stay afloat...and this isn't just a hypothetical; it's a reality. Dropout rates due to not being able to keep up with academic standards among minorities is significantly higher than among those who get in on their own merits.

[@TheMonk72]

Affirmative Action: systematic racism based on performance across arbitrary racial groups. Originally intended to raise the number of people from particular racial groups in all professions, but in practice it just reinforces racial divides and fosters the idea that minority individuals are only hired or accepted into education because of their race.

[@zephsmith3499]

> "Affirmative Action: systemic racism based on ..." Or perhaps more specifically institutional racism. Before the civil rights movement there was a substantial amount of institutional racism, with laws and policies (governmental or commercial) which openly and officially discriminated based on race. Today, that has been strongly expunged from government and commerce, but there is a claim that a subtle and hard to measure case of "systemic" racism persists (the degree of which seems to be very subjective and disputed). That is, some assert that just because the laws and policies have changed, doesn't mean there can't be any residues at all. For example, managers could have "unconscious bias" which might affect their hiring decisions without their knowing or desiring such an effect. But AA is again open and official policy, ie: institutional and explicit, just as much as Jim Crow laws, albeit promoted as having positive purposes. It's not subtle, it's not subjective, it's not unconscious, it's not individual. (Or course, institutional racism could be considered one form of the broader and less well defined systemic racism, so I'm just suggesting a refinement, not disputing your point).

[@Alamandorious]

Honestly? I think it was designed to foster those racial tensions and divisions. Because there's no way they want us all to figure out who the real assholes are.

[@pete3882]

​@zephsmith3499 A freeman his entire life, Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political orientation and oratorical skills honed from years as a preacher, Revels filled a vacant seat in the United States Senate in 1870. history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Black-American-Representatives-and-Senators-by-Congress/

[@Hawkcam1996]

“You’re creating opportunity for people, you know, with more diverse backgrounds” No, you’re *taking away* opportunities from people who *earned* them, and giving them to other people. That’s *very* different than “creating” opportunities

[@indianatarzan8001]

I feel it's semi-acceptable if it favored people in a reasonable manner based on socio-economic/handicap status. Why the hell should the race matter? Does it affect your IQ? Is Michael Jordan's kid going to be more disadvantaged than me?

[@sailordave1000]

I’m a white guy and I was a victim of affirmative action type program in the Navy. At the time the navy had a set number of positions for my job rating to be promoted up to the next rank, E5 or petty officer second class. But a portion of the number had to be women. Let’s say there was 100 positions available and 25 of them had to be women. Our promotion is through evaluations and written test to test your knowledge of the job. One must meet a minimum test score to be considered for promotion. Right off the bat, the top 25 women are promoted. But those top 25 women scored far below the top 100 men. That means 25 highly qualified men would not be promoted in order to make room for 25 less qualified men. To add to the insult, there were a large number of me. Below the top 100 who scored far higher than the top 25 women. If they were women then they would be promoted but because they are men they continue at the lower rank and pay. When it comes to universities I’m ok with assistance according to family income, not because of skin color nor ethnic origin. Standards should not be lowered to accommodate a particular group.

[@jasonbritt2497]

Same story I had in the Army….. passed up for SFC 3 times as an infantryman by black SSG who barely pass PT test, little education hardly any training, barely pass rifle qual and had minimum time. Yet I’d maxed PT, maxed rifle qual, double the time, maxed military schools and education, went to ranger school, went to sniper school, went to sapper school and had multiple deployments, every one of my evals near perfect score. Then every time we did deploy one of these same guys would magically find a way out of it only for us to return 15-18 months later to them being promoted again, while some of us either came back in pieces or not at all.

[@MrPenguinLife]

The problem is not defining affirmative action, the problem is defining it then not being accused of being a racist.

[@TrafalgarWaterDLaw-dl5cm]

I do understand that especially as a black petson it can be hard to make it to colledge, and then having to question whether you even belong there based on getting the dummy version of every test. That even if you make it you only did because AA or if youd actually pass the normal score? And as an Asian youd just feel the injustice zo have to score 100 points more in some places. Just crazy.

[@veryconcerned9375]

It’s giving someone something they haven’t earned based on their sex, color of their skin, not because they earned it

[@futurewavecs]

Spot on. I've been saying for years that BLM chose the wrong thing to focus on. It wasn't that people were black that was causing the disparity in interaction with police. It was the culture they embraced. If you admire, elevate, and praise people acting like thugs then you are likely to have more negative interactions. This can also be seen with white people who embrace this same culture they ALSO have higher negative reaction with police. The good thing is unlike your skin color, you can choose to change your culture.

[@chrish7336]

Well if black Americans didn't appropriate white redneck cracker culture it wouldn't be a problem today.

[@MechaJoezilla]

To be fair, the BLM organization just wanted a lot of money!

[@carlosreid51]

Blm could have been a great second coming of MLK JR but they are ran by a marxist communist group that want gender queer theory , fatherless homes , equity of outcome and the avidcate rioting and looting in which isnt helping families and black communities. This could have been a strong and stellar organization but pushed the wrong agenda and since 2018 I personally been warning people what BLM group is fraud.

[@maxsordi]

BLM such a fraud, they caused so much damage, they took millions and didn't helpe anyone... most black people are killed by other black people and not the police... police kills small number of people... not to say police shouldn't act better

[@cid0vicious]

Facts

[@timelapsega]

Affirmative action has set lots of people up for failure in some cases. You let a kid with a 1000 SAT into MIT and they're going to have problems, while they may have thrived at another school.

[@annepowers4734]

Affirmative action doesn't only affects education but jobs as well.

[@jamesberlo4298]

and Promotions and retention too.

[@annepowers4734]

@@jamesberlo4298 agreed

[@krismartinez650]

And housing and child care

[@StimParavane]

I went to a school that proved how affirmative action based on skin colour doesn't work i.e. we had middle-class Indians and working-class Pakistanis, with working-class Jamaicans and middle-class Nigerians. The school administration had no choice but to treat everyone equally regardless of skin colour.

[@Ulthreael]

Wonder why he left out the part where the black student can score 300 points lower and still be chosen above the white and Asian student? 🤔

[@tonyaeads6313]

I wondered that too😮

[@cloverite]

Or how the black children of parents who earn over 6 figures and who went to private school will get privilege over a white student who grew up in foster care.

[@jodibraun6383]

He does actually point it out, but it's in a different video from this series.

[@mardyroux8136]

@@jodibraun6383 I'm pleased to hear it was eventually covered. It is officially unconstitutional now though, since the 2023 SCOTUS ruling.

[@indianatarzan8001]

I wonder why he claimed blacks only commit a little more crime than whites because that is totally false, at least for murder/manslaughter. I'm guessing he's afraid to point that out. Look up FBI crime statistics table 43 each year. Also he speaks about keeping a squeaky clean police record as if that's some super hard thing to pull off. I don't have a single friend w/ a police record (unless you count speeding tickets) and it's not like I hang out w/ rich people.

[@pcojedi]

affirmative action for the last 30yrs has been creating prejudices from the people that have to score higher in test scores and no one talks about that. Imagine someone being told if you work and study hard you can get into any school you want, then you get rejected by the school of your dreams so that school can check off a box saying they are diversified by that school accepting a less qualified student. That rejected student will not be happy and they will pass on that hurt to their offspring by telling them the truth that there are people that are not as smart as you but they get to go to a college of their dreams. I have always said you cannot anger the majority of the population with unfairness and not expect some type of blow back because people never forget a hurt done to them.

[@jasonbritt2497]

I was just explaining this today to someone you just did it much better. AA isn’t the only thing that spreads this resentment either

[@styxx5912]

Affirmative action is a race based program that promotes diversity over merit. By the time affirmative action comes into play the damage has already been done. To solve the diversity problem the change has to come at the elementary school level. Equalizing education standards focusing on fundamentals and students that are falling behind.

[@lettsgav001]

YES..

[@bobl703]

But it is also a cultural issue. Asian parents make their kids study hard, while other families don't push their children in school.

[@tammyrogers9129]

​@@bobl703with it being removed everybody has an opportunity to excel.

[@bobl703]

@@tammyrogers9129WHEN it gets removed. Affirmative action is still around.

[@KidarWolf]

And that is exceptionally hard to do with the way schools are set up. Part of how schools try to equalize education standards and make sure students keep up with fundamentals is to teach at the pace of the slowest to understand a concept. For kids who get it quickly, that means their education is slowed down, dumbed down, and ultimately leaves them bored and frustrated with education. Those bright kids very often end up dropping out of education before they even go to college because they get so disillusioned with educational institutions. We get labeled as "disruptive" or "difficult", and basically get punished for being smarter than some of our peers. I used to get detention for reading ahead in class instead of listening to my classmates stumbling over reading books in English literature. So I stopped reading ahead, and started fidgeting because I was bored out of my mind. So I got detention for being noisy in class. So I broke the rules, listened to music on an mp3 player. Detention for having an mp3 player at school. So I stopped showing up to class. Detention for not showing up. Why show up if I was gaining no benefit from the education? That was a vicious cycle, and it could have been avoided if instead of going at the slowest possible pace, we'd streamlined classes such that students who were struggling had more teacher support, with small class sizes with a high teacher to student ratio, and students who were understanding the subject matter very easily could have similarly smaller class sizes with a better teacher to student ratio, but geared towards letting the class go through the subject matter faster, maybe even take their final exams for that subject earlier, rather than based solely on their age.

[@stevezelazny6987]

I lived through Affirmative action at work at Kodak. I was there every day, trust me, working and training trying to get ahead. When the affirmative action hit, I watched my goals disappear. No matter how hard I worked, I could never get ahead. I had a family and could never get ahead. I watched as a bunch of people that worked the night shift who slept most of the night double their pay and not change a bit. The worst part is they laughed about it.

[@mademsoisellerhapsody]

Oh yes, I remember the laughter too. It was an open joke on the poor.

[@wreck-itralph3189]

Watching a young person understand that affirmative action is actually perpetuating racism gives me some hope. Keeping grinding young man!!

[@KarenDay-me8ri]

Giving certain people a leg up at the expense of others. A very intelligent breakdown of the facts, well done young man. Bit disappointed the professor didn't have three students (Asian, White and Black) up when discussing the point system smacked a bit of unconscious bias.

[@Kiadaw77]

The main problem with affirmative action isn’t that it help certain group over other. The problem is it is done as expenses of some other group. This is discrimination. The professor is completely missing the point.

[@nedrane297]

He's a full on liberal. He went from saying how the Asian kid has to make more points on the SAT but he DIDN'T say how the black person doesn't have to make as many points as the white person. A black person taking the SATs are given points just for being black. I was totally surprised because I seriously thought he was about to say that and he went to economics and policing instead, switching topics.

[@MechaJoezilla]

@@nedrane297I was just thinking that!

[@TheLiamis]

The "professor " is just a perpetuating part of the broken system.

[@robertshort5279]

I'm still gonna watch the video again to see what I missed . All i saw was him being supportive . On to find the real video .

[@nedrane297]

@@robertshort5279 He's very supportive. Maybe I was reading something into it, maybe he didn't want to start that conversation in class yet. But he did for the Asian kid, why didn't he say it for the black kid? Black kids are given points on the SATs just for being black, fact. He said how Asians basically have points taken from them because they are Asian, but he didn't say the other side. Why not? My neighbor's kids are black, her oldest found out about it and came home fuming, "Do they think we're stupid? I can get into any school I want on my own I don't need their black points"

[@Dragonblaster1]

I was recently unemployed for a long time, which hasn’t happened to me for over 30 years. I had plenty of non-camera Teams interviews that went well, and second face-to-face interviews that also seemed to go very well. But then I’d get turned down for ludicrous reasons. I remember one where my interviewer said, “See you in a couple of weeks.” When I pressed for how I lost out, all I got was “He has all the right qualifications and experience, and he would have been great for the role, but there was just something about him that was not quite there.” They couldn’t tell me what that deeply-buried flaw was. I am convinced that the jobs where I lost out after what I knew was a good second interview was because of affirmative action. I finally got a job where I only had a single non-camera Teams interview. I am doing well and am now half-way through my third month.

[@CrankyBeach]

Another thing that needs to be mentioned is the insidious effect on the student who is accepted because of affirmative action. He or she will wonder and never know if they truly qualified for what they were given at someone else's expense. I have also heard (anecdotally) over the years that some affirmative action beneficiaries (or are they victims?) do not do well at the elite universities because, due to inadequate schooling in elementary, middle and high school, they aren't prepared and just don't have the academic background to succeed at the level they've been thrown into.

[@tahlia__nerds_out]

This is mentioned in “David And Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell. Elevating people artificially doesn’t help them; it is more likely to overwhelm them… and it puts them more at risk for “imposter syndrome”. Affirmative Action is different than providing more opportunities (like scholarships) to someone who has the grades and the drive, but not the financial resources to get into college. But providing a spot at a prestigious school merely due to immutable characteristics is not fair to anyone. That high school with a poor reputation might not have provided an average student with the skills to graduate from an Ivy League school… but that same student might do quite well at a less prestigious college or trade school, rather than wasting time and money (while wounding his self-esteem) by becoming an Ivy League dropout. I think sometimes forget that we are dealing with individuals in their focus of hitting a quota; what’s better for the school looking to appear more diverse might not be best for the individual student. The focus should be obtaining the best life outcome for the individual student, not just the short-term success of getting into a school that one would not have been able to grade-wise without affirmative action.

[@JimQuinn-tb3uq]

True, it is also common for the black kids to switch to easier majors because of the lack of preparation and the intense competition from other kids who are more academically prepared. If they went to less strict schools where the competition wasn't as tough, more of them would probably stick to the harder majors instead of bailing out.

[@agm5424]

Affirmative action is a long term strategy that in time will give the state the power to decide who gets to work and who doesn't based on what is beneficial for the state/government.

[@medicisdad1]

The govt cannot give one person ANYTHING without forcibly taking that thing from someone else.

[@takarahayashi4124]

what do you think affirmative action is? > easy, racism.

[@imdreamingofawhite]

It's reparation in action.

[@elizabethanthony3916]

👍👏👏👏👏

[@chrish7336]

@@imdreamingofawhite It is not Reparation in Action, but thanks for playing. Reparation in action is the Welfare state that pays out more to the black community than any other. Pays out so black men are kicked to the curb, and black women cry they don't have. Reparations are not going to help the black community or this country, Just ask Cullors, Obama, and Lebron. None of them are helping the black community, they don't even spend money in the black community, they all live in predominantly white neighborhoods. Cullors especially did nothing but steal from the black community, destroy black neighborhoods and businesses, and still claim it was whitey. Time to wake up to the real problems .

[@TradGirl1991]

💯

[@TradGirl1991]

@@imdreamingofawhite and reparations are racist because you are demanding people who didn’t commit wrongdoing to pay for those who didn’t have wrongs perpetrated against them, simply based on your people group identity on the actions of the past. Therefore: racism continues

[@nathanriggs1125]

I love that you brought up what could be a vicious circle if people like you don’t try to make a change. Well done

[@dustinhaus1165]

On one hand you have "we need to stop judging people by their race", On the other hand we have "we need to be racist, because racism". Not hard to see where the good idea is, and where the manipulation is. People don't need affirmative action.....simple action is enough

[@arnoldpainal5885]

Last night I watched the film "A Million Miles Away" which is about the first migrant worker to become an astronaut. He didn't do so with the assistance of affirmative action policies - he did so with personal drive and commitment.

[@nobody8717]

AA defined by me: When authority dictates that people are placed into places or positions they may be ill equipped to handle, not based on what they have done, but on the color of their skin, or the genitals they have. it's racist, sexist, and detrimental to providing people with value for their effort.

[@brianvw2724]

Welcome to the real world where people don't have to be lazy, but if they are we will prop them up and we will take from the people who work hard to give to people that don't.

[@adamjohnston9315]

I’m a white dude who grew up poor. Dirt poor. I hung out with many different people but primarily with a black family that literally treated me like one of their own. I have to say I love old school R&B, and gangster rap. It’s what I grew up listening to. As talented as the rappers are, I don’t believe it’s good for black folks or society as a whole. Again I love it, and there is freedom of speech, so they have a right to say what they want, but it’s not good for black youth or for anyone. Everyone wanted to be a gangster when I was teen. They got that from the music and the videos. I would say it’s good for black culture like meth and mayo is good for white culture. It just ain’t no good. I hope you understand where I’m coming from. I’m not trying to take anything away from black inspired music. I get why FTP was a hit. It meant something, and that was big problem back then. Pimpn’ ho’s and slinging cakes and killing dudes from another set is not going to help anyone make it in this world. I say all this because you brought up lower income and culture.

[@michaelrobinson1059]

Not only that. It's talentless compared to R and B. Black artists once had talent.

[@stevelawrence5123]

The ethics of affirmative action is; 'Two wrongs make a right."

[@christypriest30]

You said it’s a great idea…would you rather have a doctor trying to save your child’s life who got perfect grades in school and completed extensive clinicals successfully who happens to be white or would you want a black doctor who barely got through medical school and clinicals who was only hired by the hospital Emergency department because they had to comply with government orders and hire a black doctor? That’s what it comes down to. Actually that’s from a real life experience I saw when I was an active paramedic

[@51953bdog]

Exactly.

[@panowa8319]

It's one of the reasons why affirmative action is dangerous.

[@glasscity3104]

Not to mention Air traffic controllers and pilots been hired based on affirmative action to make it a less white middle age male dominated sector

[@AB-ez4rm]

In reality, to favor someone you have to disfavor everyone else.

[@donalharris3724]

Did your parents insist that you study and get good grades? Did they pressure you to give maximum effort in prepping for the SAT? If not, then you did not grow up with the same experiences as the average Asian applicant to a top school. This is true even if you both grew up right next to each other.

[@amberbrown9997]

100% correct. Whites on the whole work more with their children than black parents but less than Asian parents. It's not hard to see... as a college student studying to be a teacher, we were taught the family dynamic wasn't black parents holding their students accountable, but the parents instead defending their kids and demonizing the teacher that tried to maintain high expectations of the student. So elite colleges, put an artificial cap on Asian students who could apply, reduced white applications eligible and lowered the entry standards required for black students to attend. Makes me sick! Remove the Ethnicity and Color question all together and the best will shine and end up where they should. Everyone will have to find careers they fit.

[@jmerced]

When you don't have high expectations for a child, you get a lower performing child. The consequences are lifelong.

[@mademsoisellerhapsody]

Some of us are born bright and conscientious. No pressure necessary.

[@dahlilance6087]

Portland Oregon 1995 I was looking for work. I am a white female(this really happened)and I have a little experience in construction so I even applied in construction jobs. The business that hired me did so because they were trying to fill a quota. They needed one more woman on their payroll so they created a position with the intention of only hiring a woman. Any man who applied would not be considered at all. They did gatekeep however on female applicants. I had to take an aptitude test with a ruler. HR told me that I was hired because I was the first woman to apply who could read a ruler. Then he said that if I had been a black woman they would have hired me on the spot. I almost declined the job but I was a single mom trying to stay off welfare. The whole situation was gross though. That is my experience with affirmative action.

[@spacetiger5076]

When I learned about it in high school in the 90’s, they made it sound like a good thing. I never really heard any arguments against it, just that it was a quota set aside to guarantee spots for “underprivileged people” who didn’t “have access” to money or good education, and let them get jobs and spots at colleges they otherwise wouldn’t have qualified for. It wasn’t until over a decade later after I left high school that I found it it also meant giving spots to people who couldn’t come close to qualifying for these spots, solely because they’re better than anyone else “the right color” and that meant someone else who was white or Asian or any other “privileged” class, but much more qualified would lose out. I had to ask myself, would I want an unqualified person who didn’t really earn their way there, doing a job for me or being my doctor or whatever? No, no, I do not. I believe more in a meritocracy in that sense that the people who are qualified should be the ones getting the spots.

[@jackchen5290]

Affirmative action is treating each individual differently, in order to make them the same. Instead of treating everyone the same and accept that people are different.

[@MrNuance]

Crazy. People make up any definition to justify their foolishness.

[@TheWITTERAT]

It's simply turning people against each other.

[@craighubert9840]

Legal racism

[@killcat1971]

It's not just the REGARDED part, it's the GROUP part, when a wealthy member of a "disadvantaged" group gets advantaged over a poor member of a "privileged" group.

[@richardmartin9565]

What happened was they confused the word "EQUITY" with "EQUALITY"

[@TheLiamis]

There was no confusion, they know the difference.

[@jmerced]

Exactly right. The purposeful infusion of Marxism into our lexicon.

[@mylesleggette7520]

@@TheLiamis "They" do, yes, but normal people don't. There's a reason equity was selected: because it sounds similar enough that people who have better things to do than study this stuff just think it's the same thing.

[@PhillyLeotardo41]

There was never any confusion. This is what Marxists do, they use doublespeak as a tool to confuse and gas light their political enemies.

[@ban80]

This professor didn't want to touch on how much lower blacks have to score at elite institutions.

[@shlinn]

We have two translations in my native language, they are "positive discrimination" or "positive special treatment". Now we only use the second one since they have made everyone hyper aware that all form of discrimination is wrong and its absolutly impossible to make people accept "positive discrimination".

[@richerichism]

Affirmative action = rewards given based on skin color and not merit.

[@stargazerkawaii]

The solution is to fix the grade schools, middle schools, and high schools. Affirmative action is a bandaid solution to a broken leg. It looks like someone is trying to help while they don't actually help.

[@bobl703]

And putting that bandaid on one leg is taking away the possibility of putting it on another leg... based on race.

[@dovely9279]

Scores indicate that these schools have absolutely failed these kids due to low expectations.

[@stargazerkawaii]

@@dovely9279 that and most of the money being stolen

[@seraph6758]

😎someone sees it. Self sufficient free thinking personally employed people with private property and the ability to engage meaningfully in society! Sure college whatever, but 👆that, all that is easy BASIC level evolutionary stuff.

[@seraph6758]

Triage Bob! 🤦‍♂️

[@arnoldpainal5885]

A soluble solution to an insoluble problem is an excuse not a solution. A real definition is: It is stealing opportunities from the deserving to give undeserved opportunities to the undeserving.

[@songololo-pt4qr]

Soluble means it dissolves in water😢

[@arnoldpainal5885]

@@songololo-pt4qr Regardless neither has anything to do with being able to dissolve or not dissolve in water

[@lonesomepoetxi]

The real problem with afirmitive action particularly in a work place is that it means less qualified people are required to be hired over someone with far better quilifications for whatever job it is .

[@jlawrence0181]

LFR - I give yu a lot of credit. You are open minded and constantly questioning things around you. That is a great ability that few people have.

[@tjcuillier7024]

I had spent 15 years working in a particular job market, interviewed for a position along with several others sitting next to me. We were all interviewed at the exact same time. I was the only person that had ANY experience in the type of position and I had 15 years of it. The hired the 2 minorities (to which I am not) on the panel with no experience because of Affirmative Action. Put yourself in my shoes, had you worked hard for 15 years only to get passed over by people that had zero experience simply based off the 'group' they were in, would you find that the right & fair thing to do?

[@maureen9115]

Been there. Worked hard, studied longer hours, got 5x the education while I worked several low level jobs at the same time, self supporting because no dad & immigrant mother who was murdered when I was a young teen, grew up in a black, Hispanic communities & got left behind by being overpassed for my privilege of being white. Eventually I had to create my own employment with no medical. Then recruited to teach a trade to help minorities get better paid jobs,getting then another credential & I get laid off for being white 10 years later by LAUSD just short of getting medical. Then I lost Social-security benefits for disability, because it was called double dipping in California when I came down with cancer & too young for retirement, after paying 20 + years into social security prior to teaching. Thank God I am old now & ready to leave this mess. The rich whites didn’t get the impact of affirmative action because daddy owned the company or knew someone. It was laid on the backs of poor whites that were already struggling & give up their chance to help themselves & their families.

[@mademsoisellerhapsody]

@@maureen9115 Truth

[@HussarPlays]

This Professor is one lecture away for saying the “wrong” thing; getting canceled - getting platformed by the freethinking channels - making the world a better place

[@killjoy197]

Definition: Good intentions mixed with the idea that the people you seek to benefit couldn't achieve it on their own (meaning you think they are lesser and look down on them). Often this is achieved by lowered expectations, decreased standards, and forced quotas.

[@bobl703]

... and it always hurts others in the process.

[@killjoy197]

@@bobl703 In many ways, yes. If you hold people to a lower standard then why try to be more than that? It'd be like every one dropping out of high school and coming back when they turn 18 to get their GED (good enough diploma), that becomes the standard. It also invokes resentment from those held to a higher standard so even if you are fully qualified for the job, they just assume you were a AA hire regardless. Also its a form of benevolent racism as its basically saying you're not smart/good enough to do what every one else is expected to do because of your skin color/race.

[@bobl703]

@@killjoy197 Agreed. AA was a bad idea as it wasn’t thought out thoroughly.

[@killjoy197]

@@bobl703 The road to hell is paved with good intentions

[@elizabethanthony3916]

👍👏👏👏👏👏

[@dangilbert491]

affirmative action is an affirmative bias towards a specific group.... giving preference by group

[@hollyridgley734]

You should be a congressman you do a good job of looking at both sides of the issues. And if you don’t know some thing, you’re not afraid to look it up and admit it. I like your videos I learn a lot. Thank you.

[@frankconley6321]

I was passed over for promotions 3 times. Each time I was quietly told that even though I was the obvious and better choice it had to go to a black employee. Someone justify it with a straight face.

[@angierodriguez7776]

People also forget that allumni and parents that put money towards schools so that way their kids get in. Is another unfair advantage.

[@donaldcarter1206]

I remember in the 70's when my grandma had jury duty and wanted to get a job there to learn more but was told she couldn't get one because she was white. When i got out of the navy i tried getting a city job but was told i was going to be put on the bottom of the list even though i had a strong skill set and they hinted at affirmative action.

[@johnnyappleseed5590]

He didn’t say how the white dude has to score higher than the black dude too just as it was with the Asian having to score higher than the white guy to get into the elite school.

[@philosopht]

He didn't want to spoonfeed his students. It's up to them to exercise their critical thinking to make it a home run

[@rg20322]

Check out HUD in Massachusetts back in the 70's. The resources (any race other than) for equal housing. This program was designed to include the same thing as boosting housing, and creating higher "affirmitive action" in the fact that you have a residence. Guess what - this was a DEM effort, most money was moved, and residences that were built failed. I must say that the families should have achieved but when you bring in low achieving, you get the same, and it designs the neighborhood. This is near Boston - just outside.

[@robertbenning6982]

Its placing one person at the head of the line in front of someone else

[@SirLeDoux]

Giving a job to someone who’s usually less qualified because of their ethnicity or sex! I lived through it!

[@lbewl7374]

Affirmitive action is - put the most enpoverished in debt for a false hope for life.

[@joanna400]

Wow, if you didn't hit the nail on the head.

[@michaelrobinson1059]

It's discrimination plain and simple.

[@ericmassey5532]

This "professor" seems to be in Favor of affirmative action.

[@TheLiamis]

His job depends on it.

[@eurobonus6969]

Affirmative Discrimination !!!

[@drewnc6196]

You hit the nail on the head! Just the other day, "Meatball" shared videos of looting and robbing downtown Philly. It is sad, and it paints a bad picture of young black Americans in the US. But I ask, why does this happen? Why do they have the need to do this? If you can find that answer, you will be the savior of our society.

[@mylesleggette7520]

The answer isn't some mystery. The problem is not that people don't know the answer, the problem is that they don't want to act on the answer.

[@SquirtlePower809]

As a teacher, I LOVE how you approach learning!

[@Sassypaws4927]

I have always thought of affirmative action as racial handicapping for students. Handicapping is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantages given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning.

[@HD-Tech]

Its rewarding someone based on what they look like versus what they have earned

[@Soledoubt]

Affirmative action: you get in. Are you good enough? Do you merit the position? Who cares !! Come in anyway

[@cheryltemplin5445]

The kids really have no idea what it is and how it effects other people.

[@Johan_g]

Oh no, the black guy also need to be a law abiding citizen too, that must be racist.

[@HippocratesGarden]

I do appreciate your openness and inquisitiveness on many of these topics. As someone in my mid 50s, it is refreshing to see people of 1-2 generations behind me, paying attention and thinking deeper than fashion and trends. At least gives me a little hope that my generation, if we wish to continue putting forth the effort to leave -something- to those after us, there will be at least a few who appreciate it, and will care take it.

[@marksanders3559]

It's a euphemism for racial discrimination.

[@alsousa7720]

Great perspective from you, Jojo, on this topic.

[@ParentsareVIPs-v1r]

Restore the family. That is that is what is needed in all communities. Good parenting can change the culture.

[@philipcolumbus3054]

I was in high school when affirmative action was initiated. Back then, it wasn’t quotas but rather that colleges would make affirmative actions to recruit qualified minorities.

[@jasonbritt2497]

But is it really qualified if you had to lower the entry standards?

[@philipcolumbus3054]

@@jasonbritt2497 Back then, it was to assure that qualified candidates were not ignored. It was quite different in those days.

[@jasonbritt2497]

@@philipcolumbus3054 I don’t disagree, I think the idea of it was needed at the time. I just don’t think it was thought through very well. Many people called Barry Goldwater racist in the 60s for opposing some of the civil rights legislation. Barry however opposed much of it not out of racism but what the future ramifications would be by passing the bills in its current form. Well intended ideas but the implementation wasn’t thought out. Example of this was his opposition to Jim Crow abolishing, unlike the democrats he didn’t oppose removing Jim Crow bc he was racist, his argument was by passing a law like that you removed peoples and businesses freedom of association and would cause a constitutional crisis down the road. We saw this very thing play out decades later with the Christian baker incident. He only urged caution in the way we write law bc later it could be used to violate the rights of others.

[@godofthunder9010]

Affirmative Action is the active use of discrimination in order to correct for perceived discrimination. It is very interesting that the professor avoided the bigger minefield there. The Asian student might need 200 points higher than the white student, but they'd need to score 500+ points higher than the black student.

[@senectutecato3987]

Giving an unqualified person the spot that would have been taken by a qualified person if things were looked at fairly.

[@Saltheart1302]

If black people won't call out and separate themselves from the ones causing them to look bad how can others be expected to separate them into good and bad?

[@bjamo8738]

I will never forget when a certain Black actor said that his father told him he would have to work three times harder than a white actor to succeed. My response in my mind was, how would his father know how hard other actors worked to get where they are?

[@helmeteye]

I've experienced the negative effects of "affirmative" action. It's been going on for a long time. I'm in my 50's for context. I wanted to be a journalist. Main editor of the school's newspaper, though the official editor was a female. Recruiters would come around. On one such occasion, the recruiter told me in confidence, "we(meaning the entire recruiter pool from all the media present) are only hiring females, preferably minority females." The thing that bit the most is that, as the editor, I knew I was the most qualified. At first I was bitter, but then realized everyone they were considering was mediocre at best. I'd have never lasted anyway, because I find it almost impossible to sell out. For instance, when the leftists colluded with corporations to violate the Nuremberg Code, instead of getting fake papers that were offered, I told the corp it was none of their business. I'd have told them that either way.

[@cmotherofpirl]

It is a quota system - and that is not hard to define at all.

[@flyoverbill421]

Often times people are put in situations they are not trained for thus they fail

[@mikejacobson14]

I'm non-BIPOC and I consider myself to have been disadvantaged when I was young. Any 'advantage' I may now have I paid my dues for.

[@popoju9]

Jojo, you are a good role model. influence the young bloods. black culture HAS to change to become better and respected. making excuses for the violence and crime and bad behaviors is getting old. using slavery as a crutch is played out. keep rocking it. i am chinese from taiwan and you EARNED my respect for being opened minded and speaking truth to power when power corrupts.

[@Dusty3030]

It means you wonder when you see someone black in a profession did they get there because of merit or skin colour.

[@drumdawg21]

Amen, man! Cultural change is the path to success. Keep up the good work!

[@robbieestabrook8993]

The definition of affirmative action is giving an advantage to someone based on factors that they can’t control instead of rewarding based on how adept they are at something.