Affirmative Action Debate: Khin Mai Aung (5 of 14)

The motion: "It's time to end affirmative action"

Moderator: Robert Siegel
Speaking for the motion: John H. McWhorter, Terence J. Pell and Joseph C. Phillips
Speaking against the motion: Khin Mai Aung, Kimberlé Crenshaw and Tim Wise

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• intelligence
• squared
• u.s.
• iq2
• debate
• affirmative
• action
• race
• gender
• equality
• sexism
• racism
• preference
• civil
• rights

[BillBisco]

Irrelevant. Racism is racism.

[miggypiggyful]

Sorry wrong video lol

[missbistouri]

@HateGovernment Of course there is: an uneducated moron.

[missbistouri]

@HateGovernment You're confusing equal with identical. Diversity and equality are not incompatible (there's an 'i' BTW); diversity and identical are incompatible.

[HateGovernment]

Equality and diversity are not compatable. How can we be equal if we are different? How can we be different if we are equal? Which is it? Obviously, we are not equal. And, diversity is devisive. That is why our founding fathers wanted a "melting pot" and not a stew. We need to think about what makes us alike, not different.

[HateGovernment]

Nothing worse than a well educated moron.

[TiaSaysSo]

She kind of refutes her own argument.If diversity is so desirable,even by all the top companies and the universities,then you don't really need state affirmative action to achieve it.Its only if the opposite is true then the argument holds.

[PhantomLyric]

I have to agree with what she says about legacies. Based on the studies I've read (unbiased studies that is) that data is correct. Legacies are at least twice if not 3 times as likely to be admitted than non-legacies. Coincidentally, I JUST applied for all but 2 of the Ivy League schools and on every application, it asks if your parents or grandparents are alumni. -- The question is, why?

[PhantomLyric]

The problem I have with her argument is that it assumes, too much, that the issues and positives she brings up matter enough to the people who are speaking out against it. Yes, diversity is GREAT for many reasons but how important is diversity to the people who have what they want or can get what they want... Sure, there may be 30 seats out of 1400 that more qualified whites were supposed to fill and therefor can't but Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Penn are literally a few miles away.

[BrotherAtticus]

~ 1:05

She does NOT think that camaraderie between different races comes "naturally"? If kids are raised in a colorblind society, of course it does! She wants "diversity" to remain a reluctant and artificial process? This is scary stuff. I can't believe what I'm hearing.

[willyrobinson]

What she's saying is that we get stronger the less white we get. Ending 'racism' is code for ending Europeans. Ending Europeans is GENOCIDE. Anti-racist is code for Anti-white. It's genocide.

[ssyw2700]

@BillBisco Simplistic. History is history.