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In California they tried to add an amendment to allow race-based preferential treatment for the UCs (etc) [1]. It failed, but just putting this out there to bet
by renlo 4y ago
In California they tried to add an amendment to allow race-based preferential treatment for the UCs (etc) [1]. It failed, but just putting this out there to better understand the milieu and how it _could_ be used.
[1] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Proposition_209_Affirmative_Action_Amendment_(2020) https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
- elil17 4y agoIn this case, "preferential treatment" means affirmative action, something that is done everywhere else in America. No one was proposing quotas or something like that, which are federally illegal.