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US supreme court rules against affirmative action in Harvard and UNC cases (kbin.social)

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From The Guardian

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

Way to go, SCOTUS. /s

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not american, so I don't have a horse in this race. But I believe that being racist to fix equity is a terrible compromise. It's putting people of a certain ethnicity (white & asian) into their own little box with more competition.

Give black & hispanic people monetary aid. Aid them more in high school by assisting black majority schools. But if the system lets you say the sentence "I would have gotten into X university if I was a different race", then the system is broken.

Finally, it's not usually "black people" vs "white people", it's "poor people" vs "rich people". Black/hispanic people might be over-represented in the poor group, which is a huge problem. But aiding the poor is completely non-racist, benefits virtually everybody, and has the side effect of slowly reducing the amount of poor black/hispanic people.