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My understanding was that affirmative action was supposed to correct the under-representation of minorities by eliminating the over-representation of non-jewish
by darawk 7y ago
My understanding was that affirmative action was supposed to correct the under-representation of minorities by eliminating the over-representation of non-jewish whites. Not that it was designed to under-represent them.
- seattlebarley 7y agoHave you been living in our world for the past five years or so? Surely you've figured it out by now.
- geodel 7y agoSeems your understanding is totally out of touch with SJW/Woke wave sweeping across the world. Pointing out statistics may brand you as apologist of racism, perpetuating while privilege etc.
- mffnbs 7y agoSeems your understanding is drunk and lost all of its tact earlier in the night.
- dang 7y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make sure you're posting in the intended spirit.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Going down that road always leads to worse discussion and damages the container here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- repolfx 7y agoStated vs actual goals. Listen to the rhetoric of the people who campaign for affirmative action and then judge what they'll really do, not what they say they'll do.