re: Race baiting student put in her place again by Supreme Court

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Blum’s argument says more about his and Fisher’s racial prejudices than it does about the school. It’s they who assume that non-whites students must have been given a leg up because they couldn’t hack it on their own. But when it comes to Fisher, they employ a different assumption, believing, against all evidence to the contrary, that she must be good enough to deserve a spot.

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a 3rd strawman

Tang, why is the author of this piece so reliant solely on grades, when he ignorantly ignores that we have much more objective data to use to compare students? why doesn't the author delve into ACT/SAT scores instead of grades?

because let me just say that this mythical method of judgment that the author skips around is almost assuredly standardized scoring. it sounds racist to act like the plaintiff is just assuming these things, but when you introduce that variable, it explains why she believes her side to be true as well as the gap presented. that gap shows that the "bad" students had to have a "leg up" to get in and why she "deserved" to get in.