Recalibrating Affirmative Action
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Was the subject of my research project in my civ. rights seminar in law school - https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/19-2005P-01A.pdf
The lower cases were incredibly thorough, so the conservatives on the court are going to twist themselves into knots trying to undo it.
The lower cases were incredibly thorough, so the conservatives on the court are going to twist themselves into knots trying to undo it.
Voice of Reason
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Depending on the court, maybe.
get these nets
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Gritsngravy
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Something I’m confused about with affirmative action in higher education is what goals are white people and Asian people especially are trying to accomplish
How many seats realistically will open up by taking away affirmative action, what is the motivation
How many seats realistically will open up by taking away affirmative action, what is the motivation
Keeping black people at the bottom
ADevilYouKhow
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Going to be wild when they(the Dems) take voting rights and citizenship away from AA
Gritsngravy
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Well got to turn lemons into lemonade, have to give more support and focus to hbcus
Most Asians (70%) support affirmative action. A small minority of Asians are being used here as pawns by White racists in order to make their case look more appealing.
70% of Asian Americans support affirmative action. Here's why misconceptions persist.
With the Harvard affirmative action case a step closer to the Supreme Court, Asian American activists say much of their work involves dispelling myths about affirmative action's impacts.
www.nbcnews.com
For those whites and asians who are attacking affirmative action, I usually see two main motivations:
1. The perpetuation of grievance politics / persecution complex. Certain people always want to prove that everyone is out to get them, or that they've accomplished all they have despite having to overcome terrible odds. There aren't a lot of issues where White or Asian people can legitimately claim to have been at a disadvantage as a race, so Affirmative Action is one of the few reaches they try to make. So long as they fail to overturn Affirmative Action they can continue to complain that they're being wronged, and the moment they successfully overturn Affirmative Action they will wave it as proof that they had been wronged.
2. An ideological fixation on colorblindness or "fairness" that relies on the naïve assumption that anything explicit is "more wrong" or "more unfair" than anything implicit. Since White Privilege is not explicit in law, but Affirmative Action is explicit in law, they feel that Affirmative Action is "more racist" and a bigger priority to solve first.
3. Desire to own the libs and/or push Black people down.
Supreme Court like this one will probably turn around and decide that any targeted support to HBCUs is unconstitutional as well.
ADevilYouKhow
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Yeah, this right here
Voice of Reason
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To my knowledge they don't have Affirmative action in Canada and Africans are doing well. Could the same happen here?
Africans are doing well here too.
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Africans are doing well here too.
Stop being sensitive I didn’t mean it that way.
And the top percentage of ADOS/FBA are doing well too.