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Base Maga or what the media claims is base Maga has virtually zero representation in the current system.
I will define the caricature of Maga as a West Virginian living in a trailer park. I don’t think it just classifies to this type but it’s good enough to work with. When the immigrants first moved to West Virginia to work in Coal Mines or Pittsburgh they were poor people but unfiltered and had a mix of smart and stupid people.
My Catholic Church in my parents generation (now the middle of no where) produced a founding member of Silicon Valley and a founding member of the PE industry. Those people are like 80 now. Their dads probably worked in the mills. The high IQ mill kids long since filtered out and now their kids just blend in with the blue tribe and grew up somewhere else. I believe Hannania has commented that West Virginia is low IQ. They probably are because every kid with some ability long since left.
The point I’m getting to is the remaining population in these areas are long since separated from their highest ability co-ethnics. They have no connection to the whites who go to Harvard. They have little political representation. WV actually has very good roads so about all they get into is some Manchin infrastructure grift.
These people have no hope of going to Harvard. An African American has hope for that with lower standards.
The issue with affirmative action is these people superficially look like the white people going to Harvard but are not those people.
What would we be left with if we wanted to do affirmative action fairly because some groups have low HBD but we want representation for them in the elites? We would have to have some points system where everyone pushes for their groups particular oppression or group weakness to get special treatment for everything.
Apple in their ads had one with the “black female women” lecturing Tim Cook on esg or something. Maybe we also need coal miner son from West Virginia getting their own ad lecturing Cook.
I think the Maga people or a percent of it do roughly fit this caricature and if you are going to claim black peoples have realized they can’t get to the elites on merit alone then I think it’s also apparent my caricature has realized they can’t get to Harvard on merit alone except they have to compete in the primary admittance program against billionaire kids.
My personal opinion besides all the rhetoric is we do need to make sure 4-5% of African Americans get into Harvard with a boost for representation in the elites. 14% is too high and often just rich foreigners. And we probably do need to get 2-3% of WV coal miner kids into Harvard (is this 0% now?).
But some how we need to get there with out everyone talking about it because then it’s just status games on the oppression pyramid.
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