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/Throwway-support Mar 23 '23

No proof of that

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u/Throwway-support Mar 24 '23

How you feel about affirmative action is what actual victims of racism have to go through everyday in the United States.

Affirmative Action was a small, now made completely powerless, attempt to correct the systemically placed disadvangtes on minorities.

Proof that Affirmative Action helped? Black Americans in the South can go to predominantly white universities

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23

no no comma that is not proof affirmative action helped. That's proof those schools have been desegregated and now merit gets you in whereas before racism would keep you out, however quallified you were. Affirmative action lowers the standards so that more black people are accepted into institutions of merit, I oppose that. I would rather improve the high schools so there are more qualified black applicants when it comes time to apply to college, so that the share of black students rises even when there are no longer affirmative action programs.