>>13714978>i always assumed it was just /pol/speakYeah, its just pol speak. Sociological biases and preferences probably don't really exist or influence our behavior very much, and there's no reason why ideology or values would have any impact on the way people or organizations make decisions, especially in education.
The exception to this would generally be with white people and conservative organizations. White people tend to be very biased and racist, and the same thing applies to conservatives, so you might see white people or conservatives attempting to use bureaucratic procedures to exclude certain groups and to reinforce institutional white supremacy and the over-representation of white individuals. E.g., if a white trash dude from West Virginia who was homeless and raised by an heroin addict, had a 3.0 GPA, and he applied to a conservative Ivy League school, like Harvard, he would almost certainly be accepted right away, just because he is a white dude, and American institutions, especially historically powerful and influential institutions like Harvard, tend to be extremely racist and white supremacist. The same would not apply to blacks. If you are black and you want to get into a top school, you have to really stick and an be amongst the best of the best, because a lot of admissions people will reject applications just because they are from a black person or have a "foreign" sounding name. That's why black people who get into top universities usually have like 4.0+ GPA, perfect SAT/GRE, publications, extracurriculars, etc. I think MIT and Caltech are a little less racist than places like Harvard or Yale, though, so I don't think it would be quite as hard to get into somewhere like MIT, but you will definitely have to do A LOT better than most white applicants.
Poltards are fucking morons. In America, white people have everything handed to them on a silver platter. Don't listen to whatever retarded shit they say about affirmative action.
