Logic Game: Racial Assumptions in Sociology

[drenchlaka]

Persian women wear 5 pounds of makeup, get nose jobs, and have all the latest in Gucci fashion.

Persian men are over-confident, narcissistic, fruity, and most likely closeted queers.

Still love the ******** out of the culture and people, tho.

Mirim bala!

[Mooby the Golden Sock]

Jeff the Kitten

Page 33 has this sentence, "the admissions officer at the exclusive private university who is told to give preference to the children of alumni is perpetuating racist admissions policies (because most of the alumni are white), even though he or she may personally abhor racism."

What percentage for "most" have to be for it to not be perpetuating racist policies?

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This is not racist, this is classist and perhaps elitist.

Mixed with a bit of nepotism.

Giving preference to family members is not perpetuating racist policies. Assuming the school has diversity outside the family preference, the next generation of alumni will be diverse.

[Jeff the Kitten]

Mooby the Golden Sock

Jeff the Kitten

Page 33 has this sentence, "the admissions officer at the exclusive private university who is told to give preference to the children of alumni is perpetuating racist admissions policies (because most of the alumni are white), even though he or she may personally abhor racism."

What percentage for "most" have to be for it to not be perpetuating racist policies?

Quote:

This is not racist, this is classist and perhaps elitist.

Mixed with a bit of nepotism.

Giving preference to family members is not perpetuating racist policies. Assuming the school has diversity outside the family preference, the next generation of alumni will be diverse.

Nepotism? Maybe. I think a better explanation is that the people who taught you how to live had been good enough to enter into the school in the past.