Unsurprised that the conservative majorty on this Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. I'm Anti-surprised, in fact. They'll likely do the same thing to student debt relief, later today or tomorrow.
It'll take about 3 years to see the full effects of today's decision across the higher education landscape; these justices won't care then, either.
If you want real remedies for centuries of inequity, inequality, and injustice, this court isn't where you need to go.
Hit the ballot box, the city council chambers, or the streets, instead.
What a sad mess.
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@Wolven I really need to look into this affirmative action ruling to get an opinion on it... Obviously it **sounds** like a good thing, as affirmative action was never a good way to solve the very real racism problem we have. But my fear is that better solution arent going to replace it so it still leaves a gapping problem.
Striking down the loan forgiveness stuff makes sense, we should have always been giving free education to future generations, but forcing loan company's to pay other peoples bills for an otherwise legitimate agreement, no thats just wrong.
"we should have always been giving free education to future generations"
Said on the largest free information sharing platform in human history.
What we didn't waste money on is handing out a piece of parchment signed by someone who has no real world experience creating anything of human value.
> Said on the largest free information sharing platform in human history.
Information is not education, particularly when said information is unreliable and requires research, which requires education to do so effectively (flat earthers are a prime example of information without education).
> What we didn't waste money on is handing out a piece of parchment signed by someone who has no real world experience creating anything of human value.
I could care less about diplomas and degrees. I'd be more than happy to reform the way we look at school and have people take courses piecemeal and int he end have employers evaluate their skills, not a piece of paper.
@amiserabilist @SirPaulCouture @Wolven
If you have any points to be made from the article please feel free to make them and cite the article. Otherwise i dont have the bandwidth.
@freemo @SirPaulCouture @Wolven
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.