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Yeah, the only way an individual who isn't black is harmed by affirmative action is if they were only going to get some opportunity by a hair anyway. This tugs
by justizin 11y ago
Yeah, the only way an individual who isn't black is harmed by affirmative action is if they were only going to get some opportunity by a hair anyway.
This tugs at the complex notion of, "well represented minorities". The reason the author didn't get an edge for being of Indian descent is because Ivy League schools and top-paying careers have a representation of Indian and Asian Americans that is much nearer (without claiming to have memorized numbers) their portion of the overall populace than African Americans and Latinos, and Affirmative Action is about breaking the glass ceiling.
- gkop 11y agoFor the record, I think it's a complicated subject, and we can always do better than the status quo. But this article is not helping the cause of those that want to end affirmative action; it identifies their cause with jerks.
- pessimizer 11y ago> Yeah, the only way an individual who isn't black is harmed by affirmative action is if they were only going to get some opportunity by a hair anyway. That's the source of my fascination with university anti-affirmative action activists: their cases in court rest on the claim that they were less qualified than every single person of an identical racial designation that was actually accepted to the school.
- tsotha 11y agoI don't see how that's relevant.