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Then it should be based on poverty, not race. The people that didn’t deserve to get in to those top tier schools can make just as much money after graduating from a “lesser” school.

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I live in a $3 million house and would be COMPLETELY OK with my kids being rejected from their dream schools for poverty-linked affirmative action. They have a vastly easier path to academic achievement, and if they got 90 points on a test and a poor kid got 80 points, that other kid just plain old outperformed them.

You'll find a lot of us out there who are vehemently opposed to race-based affirmative action but would enthusiastically support wealth/class-based affirmative action.

The fact that you would be willing to sacrifice your children’s future for “the Greater Good” is deeply troubling to me. I would want the best for my kids even at the expense of social justice and the common good.

I don’t think making my children compete fairly with others is sacrificing their future, quite the opposite. If they will ever achieve anything meaningful they’ll need to build their own engine instead of just riding on the skis that I’ve greased underneath them.

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