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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (437385)	8/1/2003 8:08:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "What wrong with excellence? Do you want an "economically deprived" surgeon operating on you or one who knows what he's doing? An "economically deprived" lawyer defending you or one who knows what he's doing?" >>> I thought 'excellence' was included when I said: if preferences in admissions are needed... then they should be based only on TWO factors: intellectual achievement, potential (grades, test scores, etc.), and character & economic deprivation. Skin color or ethnicity should not be a factor at all. We should be a 'color-blind society', judging people by their achievements and the 'content of their character'. >>> Question is: how does one measure 'excellence'? (Well... grades, test scores, potential, achievement....) "This is not that mythology called Communism. "Equality" means equality of opportunity and equality before the law, not equal outcome. You earn the outcome." >>> Yep... but we were talking only about college admissions, which are hardly free of 'special preferences' now. Old money ('legacies') get special admission advantage, athletic talent is advantaged, artistic, etc. I see nothing wrong with encouraging intellectually qualified kids - who have come from poor/disadvantaged backgrounds - by giving them some admission preference too... in a totally 'ethnically blind' manner. I'm sure the preferences that benefit the monied will continue as well, providing a rough sort of balance.... >>> As to your Presidential picks... it looks like our personal selection processes were very close... even when we each went a different way, it was with reluctance and difficulity, and occasionally dispair at the available choices.