Because if the issue was all about race, and not culture, Nigerian Americans wouldn’t be doing better than most White & Asian Americans. Because the children of Nigerian immigrants aren’t mocked or put down by their parents for being intelligent. They aren’t discouraged from succeeding in school, and in fact are encouraged to the point where Nigerian Americans have one of the highest rates of bachelors degrees of any ethnic group in the nation.

Why do you think we got protests like: https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2017/10/09/cornell-students-revive-debate-whom-colleges-should-count-black

Because the slave descendant group got pissed off that the overwhelming majority of Black Students at the best colleges in America are first or second generation immigrants

because racists are idiots?

This group is literally trying to argue that black immigrants experience racism differently. Like fucking really? Like what, you think the racist cop is gunna go “hold on, before I arrest you are you Nigerian?”

It’s beyond idiotic

well... they do experience racism differently

“Racism is institutional” “you can’t experience institutional racism if you’re the child of a black immigrant”

they don't get called an "uncle tom" or other slurs by racist idiots just because they are good at something

.....really? You actually think the institution gives a flying fuck where you’re from

no

racist idiots do

Yep

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/240157528988712961/417299025323360257/FB_IMG_1519423819914.jpg

and there is no institutional racism that disadvantages black people... if anything its the opposite

then again, i consider affirmative action as inherently racist/sexist

I mean, as I said above, affirmative action is the textbook definition of a racist law

it also hurts people that are supposed to profit from it

It is a law that effects you solely based on your race, ethnicity, sex, & religion. It’s textbook discrimination

it is

People forget that discrimination can be both positive and negative

there is no positive discrimination

it always has negative effects on someone else

It can 100% effect people positively

That doesn’t make it right

if you have 100 spots to fill and "positively discriminate" against someone that only means that someone else who is more deserving gets left out

But that’s assuming a zero sum scenario.

is there ever a scenario that is not zero sum where affirmative action is applied?

If an employer decides it’s February so I’m going to give a $100 bonus out of pocket to all my black employees for black history month or some shit that’s a positive discriminatory act. No nonblack employees are hurt by you doing this

That doesn’t make it not discriminatory though

thats extremely discriminatory

Any form of positive discrimination inherently contains negative discrimination.

And vice versa.

also... even the people "profiting" from affirmative action are actually hurt by it... by the existence because it discourages them from being "their best" and everyone who gets hired has to work against the stigma of possibly being a "diversity hire"

any form of discrimination is discrimination, it literally means to make a difference

deller, that example is not affirmative action 😉

No, but it’s positive discrimination

There is no positive affirmative action

but i could construe the negative effect of it if you want me to 😄

Affirmative action just sucks

yip