Trump repeals Obama’s policy on Affirmative Action
I have a bit conflicting views one this. On the one hand, affirmative action helps account for some of the systemic disadvantages for Blacks and Latinos. On the other hand, Asians (my race) has been disproportionately repressed in terms of school admissions due to AA. Not sure what the net effect is for whites though. Thoughts? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-race-schools.html
Affirmative action is a really crude way to compensate for "systemic disadvantages." It tends to help people who are already middle or upper-middle class, and there's quite a bit of evidence that it actually hurts them by pushing them up to a school that is one tier higher than they are really qualified for. The result is that they take easier majors or don't finish.
Do you have solid evidence and non biased stats to back up this statement? This is not a thing.
Nothing was repealed other than guidance. Do you think obama is the reason Harvard evaluates candidates the way they do? Also, rich white people who donate money, are legacies, etc., take more spots from Asians than the few black and brown people admitted. Why are all these supposedly smart Asians so easily manipulated by the alt-right's divide and conquer strategies. My beliefs is that it's because the Asian communities harbors a lot inherent racism to begin with. Affirmative Action isn't a government policy you idiot. But hey, if it makes you feel better that a few crumbs won't be pushed off the table to black people now, pat yourself on the back. #winning.
obama is the reason. liberals keeping mentioning races in every place, on every topic, to me, liberals divide this country. we are americans, not asians, latino, african or white. and all lives matter. that simple
Yes all lives matter, except if you're a refugee, asylum seeker, not a fetus, systematically disadvantaged black or Latino. Trump has been the most divisive President ever. Conservative nuts like to blame Obama because in their mind no one noticed race before.
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This is affirmative action. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_10925 It started as an executive order to treat all people applying for employment or already employed equally regardless of race. It evolved to college admission as well as just one additional signal that doesn’t supersede other signals for consideration There was/is systemic discrimination against qualified minorities that necessitated something like affirmative action. People have a fundamentally incorrect view of what affirmative action is. It’s not lowering the bar for minorities and stiff arming Asians out of the way. It’s to treat all qualified candidates equally. With affirmative action all but dying with the appointment of the new justice on the Supreme Court, I wonder how we will prevent these racial bias and discrimination from creeping back in?
The stated goal of equal treatment regardless of race is great, but the execution does exactly the opposite. If equal treatment is what you are after, why is there a field for “race” on the application form? Seems just like communism. Good idea, bad execution. Needs to be scrapped.
Simple. Because unequal treatment was applied based on race when it’s not transparent in the selection criteria. The only way to correct this was to make race a transparent metric in the selection process. Otherwise how would you know the reason why X% minorities met the bar, but for some reason only x/4% we’re actually admitted? Communism isn’t even in the same ballpark.
It’s called reservation in India and it sucks big time, unqualified and less skillful people get admitted to top schools for 50-75% score of other admits. While this was good to help uplift people in the past, of late this has been a disaster where well off people have their kids getting these benefits.
Affirmative action causes systematic disadvantages for Asians, by solving for the systematic disadvantages for blacks / Latinos. Racial preference much?
many asian families are refugees as well, after one or two generations, many of them move out of poverty. did they complained? all they do is working hard. and liberals thinks Asians lives doesnt matter. cause Asians dont protest, asians dont burn cars on street, asians dont rob grocery stores. when in trouble, asians will only accept it and work harder. so why not cause some systematic disadvantages for asians?
How are Latinos systematically disadvantaged?
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