That's kind of the point I was making. Context is absolutely everything. Saying that some of your friends are black is only a bigoted statement when it immediately follows something terribly bigoted being said. If that person just said something terribly bigoted I don't need them to follow it up with "some of my friends are black" to know that person is a racist and I don't want to associate with them. I find that phrase used far more as a talking point in which people refer to this theoretical wide reaching swath of racist people, when anecdotally I've never heard it used in that context. The few racist people I've run into in my life never tried to prove how "not racist" they were. Of course this is just my personal experience, the phrase obviously didn't come out of thin air so I'm sure it's been used plenty before. I just don't believe the average person is a raving bigot who hates people based on immutable characteristics.
I've got a lot of beef with the college system. It's way too much of a business now. Objective #1 for every college is to make money. I think we desperately need to get away from that and make getting a higher level education affordable and more obtainable for the working class families. Aside from that, if thinking that students that apply to college should get in on their merit, not based on the color of their skin is a "Right Wing" view then I guess you can paint me with that brush. Although, it's quite an assumption based on one comment. I'd prefer if college applications had serial numbers instead of names, sex, hometown, and race. That way there could be no discrimination during the application process. Of course there is still much work to be done on providing people with more of an equal opportunity earlier in their lives in terms of access to resources and education. That would help get people on a more even playing field in educational opportunity leading up to applying for college. At the end of the day, I want the best and brightest to be getting into the most challenging and influential fields. What sane person wouldn't want that?
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