somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> The test "discriminated" because African-Americans (and possibly Hispanics)
> scored lower than their White peers. And since requiring applicants to be
> somewhat educated is such a repugnant idea, the obvious solution is of
> course to dumb down job requirements while sweeping the root cause of the
> problem, which would take actual work and money to fix, under the rug. It's
> always better to have semi illiterate constituents who you make to believe
> that you are doing them a favour than literate ones who don't need favours
> from you to stand on their own feet.

  By demanding the test to be dumbed down, the justice system is actually
openly admitting (probably without realizing it) that some groups of people
are poorly educated. What they won't admit is that it's the actual problem.
The problem must be in the test itself, of course.

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                                                          - Warp

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