Standardized Tests are designed in a way to test your knowledge, irrespective of culture background or any other factor (they explicitly work already to factor that into tests). The only way that you can consider standardized tests as he claims is to say that one race is dumber than another race, which sounds pretty racist.
The argument effectively leads into to affirmative action for SAT and ACT scores, which ignores the problems of college mismatch and actually skills when entering the real world. In his argument, the logical conclusion is a world where one race is the designated loafers who are allowed to be stupid and get rewarded, whereas other races have to work hard to compensate for the other race.
Yep. The “standardized testing is racist” argument has always been preposterous, but especially so in this absurd version of it. If all education is the same then any human being with a functioning capacity for learning should be able to do well in a standardized test setting. The only reason to argue that is racist is if you believe some people do not have the capacity to learn the same as others. The phrase gets thrown around all the time, but it’s the old bigotry of low expectations. This fucked up belief that some people can’t be held to the same standards as others because of some difference in spite of the argument we are all the same. Maybe the issue here is with the education system that they can’t reach these kids.
The funny thing about all of this is that the whole white supremacy argument tries to tell people that we live in a world that was designed by mediocre white men to benefit mediocre white men at the expense of everyone else, while they literally try and argue for a system that is exactly that, just with a different race. I’ve known plenty of black people who had no problem passing a standardized test, some of whom didn’t even speak English as a first language, but this guy wants you to believe they just can’t hack it and need the system revamped to give the ones who can’t do it a boost. What’s his problem with black people that he thinks they can’t live up to the same standards as he would hold white people?
Standardized Tests are designed in a way to test your knowledge, irrespective of culture background or any other factor (they explicitly work already to factor that into tests). The only way that you can consider standardized tests as he claims is to say that one race is dumber than another race, which sounds pretty racist.
The argument effectively leads into to affirmative action for SAT and ACT scores, which ignores the problems of college mismatch and actually skills when entering the real world. In his argument, the logical conclusion is a world where one race is the designated loafers who are allowed to be stupid and get rewarded, whereas other races have to work hard to compensate for the other race.
Yep. The “standardized testing is racist” argument has always been preposterous, but especially so in this absurd version of it. If all education is the same then any human being with a functioning capacity for learning should be able to do well in a standardized test setting. The only reason to argue that is racist is if you believe some people do not have the capacity to learn the same as others. The phrase gets thrown around all the time, but it’s the old bigotry of low expectations. This fucked up belief that some people can’t be held to the same standards as others because of some difference in spite of the argument we are all the same. Maybe the issue here is with the education system that they can’t reach these kids.
The funny thing about all of this is that the whole white supremacy argument tries to tell people that we live in a world that was designed by mediocre white men to benefit mediocre white men at the expense of everyone else, while they literally try and argue for a system that is exactly that, just with a different race. I’ve known plenty of black people who had no problem passing a standardized test, some of whom didn’t even speak English as a first language, but this guy wants you to believe they just can’t hack it and need the system revamped to give the ones who can’t do it a boost. What’s his problem with black people that he thinks they can’t live up to the same standards as he would hold white people?