Well, I articulated myself OK, but had two typos in my last message, which I have corrected now.
To the point of affirmative actions in the USA, let me add that the beneficiary students in the universities are also likely to suffer from inferiority complex; because they know that they did not get their by virtue of their merits. So, providing historically backward and oppressed people with opportunity to grow up to be as good as anyone else should be at the very childhood stage where children do not understand differences in people's social and financial statuses.
SuBain
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On Thursday, December 10, 2015 6:28 PM, "Sukhamaya Bain subain1@yahoo.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Scalia's problem was his inability to articulate what he meant. I believe what he meant, and I myself feel, is that each school needs to decide its minimum standard of academic background for its prospective students. Students that do not meet that standard should not be admitted, irrespective of their race, gender, national origin, etc. For diversity on the campus, that standard should not be lowered. It should be a matter of the standard of the school and fairness to all prospective students, and not about diversity on campus, or about helping any race, gender, nationality, etc.
Indeed, there are many options in the USA for students of all backgrounds; and a lot of the graduates from lower ranking schools are known to succeed in life and do better than a lot of graduates from Ivy league schools. Painting any of them in terms of race, gender etc. is not a controversy that a justice of the US Supreme Court should have gotten into.
Sukhamaya Bain
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On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 10:41 PM, "Shah DeEldar shahdeeldar@gmail.com [mukto-mona]" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Insensitive comment from a supreme court justice? Politically incorrect truth?
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Posted by: Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com>
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