the reason to defend affirmative action wasn’t because racial preferences were perfect but to defend the principle that institutions ought to account for disparities, disadvantage and discrimination. unfortunately we have a large clique of dipshit pundits who could get fooled by a wallet inspector.

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the minute universities start using class preferences, reactionaries will sue them because the actual goal is to make elite institutions inaccessible to everyone other than rich white kids

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there is a certain liberal anti-affirmative action scholar who has insisted, like a rube, that once racial preferences are gone we can build support for class-based affirmative action. but the people who oppose affirmative action also very obviously oppose redress for class inequality!

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Some of your dads don’t have weird friends like zach carp

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It is fundamentally a pro immigrant story, yes, and anti billionaire, like... the comics, but it's a film about the beautiful mess of being a human. What a lovely, lovely way to spend the afternoon.

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