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Othello [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 years ago

Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions, and Biden 'strongly' disagrees

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Divided Supreme Court outlaws affirmative action in college admissions, says race can't be used
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A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
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    Its asian people too, im disgusted by the rich chinese i know celebrating this. God forbid your kid goes to a non elite school scumbags

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      Some are undoubtedly wrong on this but Asian Americans face discrimination of their own

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        I dont give a fuck about you if youre rich regardless of race.

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          I don’t understand why they don’t switch to zip code instead? Would basically be admissions gerrymandering at that point and we all know how that’s allowed lol

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            As I understand it, the University of California system (where AA was abolished via a statewide vote in 2020) has basically switched to using economic background.

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              and its been awful https://edsource.org/2020/dropping-affirmative-action-had-huge-impact-on-californias-public-universities/642437 especially for latinos

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                Yeah. The main issue being that poverty and race, while correlated, aren’t perfect reflections of each other.

                Add on top of that the UC system’s funding woes and increased focus on out-of-state (and international) students to fill funding gaps and there you go.

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