The Rude Pundit: In Its Affirmative Action Decision, the Supreme Court Shits on Higher Education

[Uncle Joe]

4. I believe this is precisely what they fear because normalization threatens oligarchic power

by eliminating or greatly diminishing cultural fault lines which have been traditionally exploited virtually every election cycle as a means of divide and conquer by the mega-wealthy.

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See, in the roughly 250 or so years I've been teaching, I've led classes with little to no racial diversity and classes with extraordinary diversity. I've seen how diversity in hiring has an effect on the students and I've seen how diversity within the classroom impacts all students, white and non-white. So let me put this plainly: diversity and equity in higher education are pedagogically important in the classroom in a way that continues after graduation. Lemme put it even more plainly: this shit matters so that students of all races learn how to fucking exist in the real world.

Frankly, I think that's what the people who are against affirmative action fear most: the normalization of diversity. Goddamn, I have taught in places where classes of 30 or 40 had one or two non-white students, if that. I loved teaching those students and gave it my all, but it feels so divorced from what they are almost guaranteed to experience outside that classroom. It matters. I know everyone on the right thinks higher education is either a waste of time or a means to a job, but it's also teaching you what it means to be in a diverse country. It makes you a better, more open-minded member of this damned society.

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https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2023/07/in-its-affirmative-action-decision.html

Thanks for the thread babylonsister.