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John McWhorter – The End of Race-Based Affirmative Action

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The Diversity Argument

The idea that diverseness is key to an education falls apart about 70% right there. The diversity argument has always been utterly hopeless in terms of anything that actually makes sense from A to B. I remember when I was at Stanford and I was TAing a class and there was a white student who handed in a book report biography of one person where all they had to do was go get a particular book. It's not that this person wasn't smart in ways, but that was the first time I had experienced a Stanford student who would do that.

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