Originally Posted by Coyote

I think it occurs often.

In a sense - when you are accepting students into an institution based upon SAT's - well, you're discriminating aren't you?

Originally Posted by Chloe

Ok but if you clearly beat me in SAT's and your the smarter person, why should I get ahead of you with some legal discrimination card I can throw in the mix?

Originally Posted by lizzie

Almost everyone I know feels cheated about one thing or the other. It's one of the primary causes of human misery that I know of.

Originally Posted by Pat

That may depend.
If the curriculum is too difficult for somebody with lower SAT's to accomplish success, it may just be setting a standard.
Now, if an institution allows a lower SAT for certain races, that is discrimination that sets somebody up for failure as they will be competing against people that obviously test better than they do.

Originally Posted by Coyote

Smart may have nothing to do with it - I might be just more disciplined and work harder with less

Ok well thats a given


Are you referring to affirmative action? If so...my thoughts are this:

Affirmative action was needed at one time. Many jobs and schools subtly barred entry to minorities and women. Afirmative action forced them to remove that bar. My great aunt was refused admittence to a business degree program because she was a woman; my aunt had to fight to get a PhD in chemistry, as a woman. My mother faced similar discrimmination in her field of epidemiology. None of them benifited from affirmative action, it wasn't there at the time. But I can certainly see the reason for it.

I think that reason is past now, and it's time to dismantle it.

Originally Posted by Chloe

I really wasn't thinking about affirmative action when starting out this thread, to be honest I had not thought about it until Pat mentioned it. I was more wondering if regular people discriminate and then I wondered are there circumstances where people accept a discrimination as ok and therefore its still legal to do. But then Pat mentioned that and I remembered that also is a form of legal discrimination. I was just making a spontaneous thread.

Originally Posted by Chloe

Ok but if you clearly beat me in SAT's and your the smarter person, why should I get ahead of you with some legal discrimination card I can throw in the mix?

Originally Posted by Coyote

Every decision made involves some sort of discrimmination doesn't it?

Originally Posted by Gordon Shumway

Ok, but if you clearly beat me in SAT's and you're the smarter person, why should I get ahead of you with some legal discrimination card I can throw in the mix?

Yeah, you would have totally blown the SAT.

Sorry, I had to do it.

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John Stossel tackled this issue quite well.

John Stossel - Affirmative Action Bake Sale | Mediaite

Originally Posted by Chloe

It wouldnt be hard to beat me since I never finished 10th grade and was married working two jobs at 16