From The Guardian

So Affirmative Action is basically dead for college admissions, further dismantling Civil Rights era legislation.

Way to go, SCOTUS. /s

  • PenguinJuice
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    02 years ago

    Turns out everyone is racist - just depends on which side of the aisle you’re on.

    • nameless_prole
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      02 years ago

      Trying to create equitable outcomes for people who our great grandparents ripped from their home, deleted their cultural and familial history, tortured and raped them, bought and sold them as property, and forced them to work for free essentially at gunpoint, for generations, is not racism.

      Words have meaning. Pushing back against the results of 400 years of systemic oppression to try to create equitable outcomes is the opposite of racism.

      People like yourself don’t even understand what affirmative action is in reality. Either that, or all of the talk about undeserving minorities “stealing” positions from white people is in bad faith.

      • nobodylikesyou
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        12 years ago

        Trying to create equitable outcomes for people who our great grandparents ripped from their home, deleted their cultural and familial history, tortured and raped them, bought and sold them as property, and forced them to work for free essentially at gunpoint, for generations, is not racism.

        If you’re using racism to achieve those outcomes, it is racism, discriminating Asians in favors of black for college admissions is racism, you can try to rationalize it however you want, but this was plain racism, the people that got discriminated by AA today don’t and have never owned a black slave, the people who benefit from AA today are not and have never been slaves, i am sorry but they ancestors had it shitty, but that’s not excuse to hurt people today just to pay some sort of moral debt.

        Words have meaning. Pushing back against the results of 400 years of systemic oppression to try to create equitable outcomes is the opposite of racism.

        No, you are not “pushing back”, you are just replacing racism you don’t like, with racism you do like while trying to appear to have the moral high ground, you are a hypocrite.