Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Asian Discrimination Asian, #MeToo, & Gender Dysphoria (Pt. 2) | Debra Soh | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report" video.

  1. Dick Toles You really don't get it, do you? They're all Americans and she is an individual, a single entity that happens to be an Asian woman, just as you're a single entity that happens to be a white male. Affirmative action says that an Asian individual shouldn't have the same opportunity as another group of individuals and has assigned an hierarchy of opportunity based on group identity. It may be fair to the group (maybe) but definitely not fair for the individual. Her argument INCLUDES you because you, as a white man, are also at the bottom of the opportunity hierarchy. If she proves that Affirmative Action is discriminatory, she is also speaking for you, because it is also discriminates AGAINST YOU. She is advocating against this type of discrimination and that we should be judged as individuals, not as Asian woman or white male. It's like two people trying out for a baseball team. Do you take the one who's the best baseball player or do you take the black guy because there are already too many white guys on the team. I take the best ball player because I want the team to be the best it can be. When you apply for university, you take the application that shows the strongest potential, that manifests itself in previous achievements of scholarship and effort. You do that to prepare for the future of your society in the best possible manner. That the top minds are the ones doing the most complex tasks that are needed for a functioning society. I don't care what ethnicity my surgeon is, so long as he's the best, not because he's Latino and there isn't enough Latino surgeons. That's not only colossally stupid, it's just plain crazy.
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  2. So all Michael Jordan's or Lebron James's kids have to do is check the "black" box and they'll get in due to black oppression points. Makes sense. If we must have affirmative action, it should be based on the economic situation of the student and his family, not of skin colour. The child of a black Doctor shouldn't get to mark "black" and take away a spot of a child that suffering from the loss of a parent and the economic hardship that this has placed on their family.
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