US supreme court strikes down affirmative action - eviltoast
    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Treating people equally regardless of their skin color is hardly ‘keeping the colored folks down’.

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        People of color have never been treated equally in America. That is the reason they need priority in education to allow them to start to balance out some of that inequality.

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          The issue comes when you are applying skin color adjustments to people who aren’t at a disadvantage. A rich black person has significantly more opportunity than a poor asian person. However, Harvard was saying the rich black person should get extra preference over the poor asian student, purely because of their skin colors. Why should the asian student from a poor family with hardly any opportunity be held down?