Growing up in liberal NYC, I was always taught affirmative action was right and helped with diversity blah blah.

I remember reading a book by Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist (at the time I didn’t know he was conservative). I didn’t even know he was black lol at the time either

Anyway he argued against affirmative action because you’re setting up these kids for failure by putting them in academic settings that they are not prepared for.

I thought of this recently and I think I agree with him.

I had an epiphany that social liberals just want the RESULT (more diversity) but they don’t want to go through the PROCESS to get that result.

They just want a quick fix so that it looks good to the public (see!! More minorities in schools = good!) same with companies. Especially with companies - they just wanna brag to the public about how “diverse” they are because they know the public eats that up and they get their brownie points.

I thought, “if governments, schools and companies really wanted to help minorities, they wouldn’t just place them in these classes/jobs. They should give them extra resources to go attend tutoring, take more after school classes, give them laptops, books, etc. then they can be adequately trained so that they can EARN their spot like anyone else through meritocracy. It would be fair to everyone.”

This is also the viewpoint of race in Europe too - where they argue that judging people by race is racist, even if you have good intentions.

Thoughts ?