playing the race card
The whole med school thing really bothers me. Why do we have different standards for different people based on their race? I went to a black surgeon the other day, and in the back of my mind, I couldn't help but think "you may not be as good as other surgeons," because med schools discriminate.
It's not me, it's someone else.
This should be a massive national scandal, and not aimed at him, but rather the entire broken system of Affirmative Action.
Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism. It also shows how arbitrary that X becomes when a school has different motivations than profit.
Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism. It also shows how arbitrary that X becomes when a school has different motivations than profit.
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Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism.
Sadly it's all baked into the institutional frameworks too thoroughly to get rid of it. Depending on the accreditation agency, many schools are required to have a minimum percentage of various races in their programs, regardless of other qualifications. There are massive government grants geared towards boosting the number of minority applicants. The system doesn't care one bit about how good those applicants are, though.
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Jeb Bush disagrees with you.TPRJones wrote:Sadly it's all baked into the institutional frameworks too thoroughly to get rid of it. Depending on the accreditation agency, many schools are required to have a minimum percentage of various races in their programs, regardless of other qualifications. There are massive government grants geared towards boosting the number of minority applicants. The system doesn't care one bit about how good those applicants are, though.Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism.
Bush signed an executive order implementing the "One Florida" plan in 1999, which banned racial preference in state school admissions. It also created a program guaranteeing that the top 20 percent of high school graduates would gain admission to a post-secondary institution and some funding for need-based financial aid.
Florida is now one of a handful of states preventing race-based admissions policies and the only one to do so by executive order. Other states had done so by ballot initiative, a route that ran into obstacles in Florida when supporters tried and failed to put a constitutional amendment on the 2000 ballot.
It's not me, it's someone else.
And I wonder what the accreditation consequences were.
If the institution has enough clot, I don't think it matters to an employer. If every school in the Ivy League lost their shit overnight, the names would still get you in doors.
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