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sisyphusshruggedProfessor Reynolds is debating Mr. Drum on affirmative action in academe, in a sort of our sameness is more than the sum of our differences mutual respect kinda way, and The Poor Man responds to the question left hanging:
Professor Reynolds:
Mr. Northrup:
Professor Reynolds:
But I'm not the one who's trivializing things here. Rather, it's the universities who lack the courage to push Kevin's approach, and retreat into mealy-mouthed lies about diversity. If you want to justify affirmative action based on remedying historic injustices, fine -- but that's not what's happening. The reason that it's not happening is that such an approach would be massively unpopular and almost certainly illegal, and universities don't want to undertake the effort of changing either public opinion or the law. Instead they talk about salads and quilts and different experiences yielding different viewpoints. So who's trivializing things here?
Mr. Northrup:
A: You.
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