[whatgoodisaroad]

To preface: I don’t really have an opinion on affirmative action per se:

That said, the elephant in the room is that institutions like Harvard and UNC aren’t really about education. They’re “ivy leagues” for preserving class inequality having been marketed as schools.

To the extent that race is a distraction from class, the fact that counteracting racial bias in admissions has failed to uplift the poor just puts too fine a point on this arrangement.

[stu2b50]

I'm not sure I'd lump UNC in there. It's a fairly elite public school, but still a public school, with 20k students and a 20% admission rate.