The concept of affirmative action is foreign to me (quite literally so). I only know it from American media, and I've come understand it to mean "positively discriminate based on race, so long as it's a minority race" - please correct me of I'm wrong. But anyway, my question for the Americans here who grok this stuff: I assume the intent is to help disadvantaged people have opportunities that more priviledged people…
> I assume the intent is to help disadvantaged people have opportunities that more priviledged people have already. Right? I mean, I can get behind that. But then why the entire detour with race? Up until about 1971 (possibly later, but that's the date of Loving vs Virginia ), the US had formal, legal discrimination against black people. On finally removing that, there was at various times discussion of whether peopl…
Re: Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
#1001Stop treating all minorities like they are in a single category. The ones that are hurt most in the cases are asian americans. They do not have advantage in "legacy" admissions over other minorities, and they are also discriminated over a century. Why are they paying the price for reparations?