I am not narrowly defining AA. I was giving one example of what I mean. But AA is based on the idea that we're giving benefits to people based on something other than need or qualifications.
I'm completely indifferent to the thought of my own children going to Eastern Michigan University. I'd like to think they could get into somewhere better (as I probably could have, had I wanted to). But it would bother me that someone else would get in based on that, if the other person is more qualified and as worked just as hard or harder to get in.
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Date: 2006-10-27 10:38 pm (UTC)I'm completely indifferent to the thought of my own children going to Eastern Michigan University. I'd like to think they could get into somewhere better (as I probably could have, had I wanted to). But it would bother me that someone else would get in based on that, if the other person is more qualified and as worked just as hard or harder to get in.