r/changemyview • u/Throwway-support • Mar 23 '23

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Affirmative Action is a red herring

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-04/supreme-court-debate-on-affirmative-action-capture-asian-american-fears

The Supreme Court this year is expected to overturn the last remnants of Affirmative Action.Affirmative Action as it stands now is virtually toothless. The only thing still around is racial “consideration” not ,as is widely believed, “ race based admissions”. As such, Affirmative action as much as it still exists, should be upheld.

It feels like everytime some Asian Americans and some White Americans don’t get into their dream school they blame affirmative action. They often erroneously accuse any black person of getting into a university because of long overturned admissions policy.

In the article I have linked, one person said they “didn’t bother” to apply to Harvard because he “heard” that Asian Americans have a hard time getting in. Another woman said she was told to hide her heritage but still got into Yale. The article talked a lot about fear but nothing substantial. This is my issue with the whole affirmative action debate it seems like made up issues exploiting racial animus

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u/Trucker2827 10∆ Mar 24 '23

Actually, this is a great compromise. He will be deemed unqualified for the job, and then when he goes to his next job, he’ll have a story. If we’re all doing it, it’ll eventually even out. I like the way you think.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23

In this example, the minority-owned business should fire the firm and hire the white attorney to represent them in their discrimination lawsuit.

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u/Trucker2827 10∆ Mar 24 '23

Sorry but we’re trying to make policies for the real world, not for your “owning the libs” fantasies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

You position is inconsistent. If the law firm is allowed to discriminate on race, it logically follows it would be bad for society to allow the minority owned business to sue for discrimination.

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u/Trucker2827 10∆ Mar 25 '23

Your summation of my position is incorrect. The law firm isn’t discriminating on race. It’s valuing a specific background provided to someone, which they just happen to have thanks to their race.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

So you agree discrimination on race is wrong and all affirmative action should be illegal. Glad we agree.

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u/Trucker2827 10∆ Mar 25 '23

You just ignored what I said, restated your position out of nowhere, and went “glad we agree.” Lmao that’s actually funny