Hilma Af Klint - The Swan, 1915

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i mean yeah! the idea is that above a certain number the presence of black students is in itself evidence that the institution isn’t choosing according to merit! bsky.app/profile/cero...

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“merit” means elite or selective institutions are mostly white with some number of east asians permitted and at most a smattering of anyone else.

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i have said this before but “It is not permissible under the 14th Amendment for the state to alleviate racial inequality” is basically a version of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that the 14th Amendment was not meant to equalize social relations. bsky.app/profile/mike...

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the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

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