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| Topic | How do you feel about affirmative action ending? |
| Atralis 08/14/23 11:29:29 PM #5: | Solar_Crimson posted... Hypocritical because the reason they attacked it is solely to curb Black people from going to college. There was not a peep about legacy admissions and upper-class nepotism that makes up a far greater degree of students in those Ivy League schools. Legacy admissions are in the crosshairs now that race based affirmative action has been banned but the Supreme Court itself didn't have the ability to ban legacy admissions because "legacy" isn't a protected class under the constitution. Legacy admissions helped specific white students have higher chances of getting into these universities but the practice was particularly damaging to white students that weren't legacies under affirmative action and the data bears that out. White and Asian non legacy students made up a majority of qualified applicants to these schools and also had no thumb on the scale for them in a system where an absolute majority of students did. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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