US Universities Should be Required to Give Preference to Applicants of Underrepresented Minorities

Alright Pro seems to have trouble comprehending a basic resolution and is basically changing it so he can win. He thinks all he needs to do is prove medical schools should accept URMs, because they’re universities. Plus, voters are not suppose to vote based on something in the comment section (only inside the debate), so exact wording is not important. Also, Pro holds a ridiculous double standard, stating “Con agreed to the idea that his argument must encompass all universities”, yet apparently he doesn’t need to. He can just account for medical schools for whatever reason. Even though the resolution is clearly referring to universities as a whole, he doesn’t have to justify it for regular universities or law schools (which makeup a larger portion of universities than medical schools do). That’d be like if the resolution was: “The United States should Ban Abortions”, but Pro only argued for banning late term abortions and then claimed to win. Since Pro can’t introduce new arguments in the next round, he basically conceded all my arguments that don’t apply to Med. School (namely economic status). For this reason I should win no matter what Pro does next round, but again I’ll defend my claims anyways. Also, Pro’s justification for my conduct being bad is absolutely ridiculous. He admits he broke an accepted rule. That throws the whole debate off course and even if it doesn’t warrant automatic loss, should warrant a loss of conduct like I said. This is very common voting practice and really common sense. The rules I stated were required to be followed by anyone accepting, and Pro brushing it aside is simply a joke. By his standards, he could introduce a whole set of new arguments next round, I cannot possibly respond to, and they’d all stand. Economic Status: Pro’s doesn’t even rebut my claims. I talked about how these physicians face produce against Blacks in a society where URMs are already given preference and provided a reason physicians maybe racist due to AA making them inherently view Blacks as inferior, since the ones they know were given unfair advantages. Pro’s only response was, “I argued that having classmates of various ethnicities can help reduce biases that students already had before entering medical school, not that physicians face bias.” So I guess he decided not to read my response, since it was quite clear it applies as a rebuttal to this. This rebuttal makes me think he basically wanted to sidestep it and will address it next round when I cannot respond to it. Regardless, my claim stands. Pro automatically assumes there would be less Black doctors if race wasn’t involved in admission. Again though, the Black dropout rate (which Pro showed is relatively much, much higher than Whites) may be lower, so more Blacks would be graduating and those who don’t go to a top tier medical school may end up going to a lower end medical school. Pro basically argues that because Blacks are going to work in a place where there are less doctors, more should be accepted. Again this is a weak argument and it automatically assumes again that there will be significantly less Black doctors and that by requiring universities to accept more Black students is the answer. Also, what about a state like Idaho that doesn’t have major Black areas? Since it’s reasonable to assume a medical school grad from a university in Idaho is going to work in Idaho, why do they need to accept more Blacks? Since the resolution is always referring to the US, it has to try and match the American rate of Blacks, which is much higher than some states. Unnumbered: Again, Pro seems to assume that all of a sudden there will be significantly less Black doctors and makes many unsupported claims. Also Pro says that Med. Schools will only admit students they think will be great. Again, that doesn’t rebut my claim that what if there aren’t enough great Black and Hispanic doctors to fill the quota, so they’re forced to accept students who aren’t great. Why should Harvard’s Medical School accept mediocre students when a relatively mediocre medical school is more likely to? Harvard Med. School is an elite private university and wants their school to have the best students they can have, which means they shouldn’t potentially be forced to accept more mediocre students. Mismatch Effect: More of Pro trying to cheat to victory by changing the resolution to start off here. Pro claims that since he only knows about medical schools all other information is relevant, even though I only accepted medical schools are a type of information. Pro also doesn’t know it’s standard in debate to consider silence concession. So once again, he concedes my point about non-medical schools. I brought up the significance of a 6% difference in dropout rates last round between Blacks and Whites, but Pro doesn’t bother rebutting it. Also Pro wanted more proof of mismatch in medical schools so I’ll provide it. Minority students were more likely to fail the first step of their USMLE or United States Medical Licensing Exam. In fact, the difference between Whites and Blacks in passing the 1st part of the exam the 1st try was huge, with Whites passing 93.4% of the time and Blacks only passing 58.2% of the time a 35.2% difference. (1) This was likely due to mismatch. It’s harder to keep up when you are at a medical school less suited for you as I already demonstrated at regular and law universities as well. Asians: Voters, even if all my other points are defeated I just won the debate on this point. Pro’s only response to my concern regarding this point was, “I never suggested we should favor whites over Asians.” Since new arguments cannot be presented this round, that is Pro’s only rebuttal to this. This is a huge problem for Pro, since Asians are ORMs, even over Whites at medical schools (and all other universities). (2) Since Pro’s arguments mainly come due to improving patient experience with more minorities, how is making more White doctors at the risk of Asians doing that? Pro will probably try to dismiss this is as nitpicking or insignificant, but it is significant for the Asians in the population. My point that AA is discrimination against Asians stands. Conclusion: Since Pro never rebutted one of my contentions, ignored a bunch of my arguments because they weren’t related to med. schools, saw his arguments fail to stand under rebuttal, ignored the rules set out at the start, and tried to claim an unfair advantage I clearly won this debate’s argument points and conduct points. Sources: 1- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... 2-https://www.washingtonpost.com...