It's as if the racial preferences issue/controversy shielded the legacy preferences injustice. It was always well-known that the children of connected, rich people got preference. But focus on the pros and cons of affirmative action, and the arguments about historical racism, and no one pays attention.
It's a debate or policy distraction that I think extends outside of the university and throughout the United States. It's as if the conversation around class inequality takes a back seat to the racial ones, and that the privileged take a very strong stance that it is the singular most important topic to address.
Some would argue that many real issues, including racial ones, and most debates, such as those surrounding welfare, immigration and drugs, mainly exist to distract from class inequality.
It's a debate or policy distraction that I think extends outside of the university and throughout the United States. It's as if the conversation around class inequality takes a back seat to the racial ones, and that the privileged take a very strong stance that it is the singular most important topic to address.