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| Topic | How do you feel about affirmative action ending? |
| Atralis 08/15/23 12:53:32 AM #9: | NoxObscuras posted... That's what they used to justify it in court, yeah. But I've seen a lot of people on social media talk about how unfair it was for white people getting passed up for opportunities. A lot of that was littered with racism though. The increasing number of Asian students and the decreasing number of white students has changed perceptions of fairness regarding affirmative action. Affirmative action throughout most of its history has involved white people discriminating in favor of certain minorities by raising their chances of admissions to schools even if that means lowering the odds of admission for white students. But its just different if the people that are controlling the levers of power are lowering the odds of groups other than their own. Do non Asian groups have the right to lower the odds of admission for Asian students in order to achieve some balance? How much? How can you argue it isn't racial discrimination if people from a racial minority are having their odds of admission slashed for no other reason than that they are lumped into "Asians"? ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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