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Why is President Trump ending affirmative action in college admissions so controversial?
The article you've linked actually describes Affirmative Action (AA) as controversial, not the ending of it. That said, it's fair to say that anything related to AA -- starting it, ending it, ...
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Can the supreme court decision to abolish affirmative action be reversed at any time?
The Supreme Court is reactive, not pro-active. It can only make law on an issue related to one of its previous precedents, when someone brings a lawsuit that presents an issue related to a previous ...
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Why is President Trump ending affirmative action in college admissions so controversial?
In short, because it contradicts identity politics view of the world that has been a culturally dominant view originated with progressives on the political left of the spectrum.
A good example of the ...
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Why don't Harvard and other universities supporting affirmative action simply stop receiving Federal Funds?
Because Harvard receives much more than $22 million
In 2021, Harvard University’s federal funding increased to $625 million. [...] An example of the kind of funding Harvard University received in ...
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Why should one wish to increase representation of under-represented group?
You seem to be under the assumption that minorities currently are not represented because they are inferior. When in fact it's because of discrimination (just looking at the supreme court, it's rather ...
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Are there examples of affirmative action (or equivalent) being applied to White groups?
There is affirmative action in the People's Republic of China, which targets the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China, including the Russian minority, who are of European origin.
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Are there examples of affirmative action (or equivalent) being applied to White groups?
It's very difficult to prove a negative, as there is no comprehensive listing of every single program endorsed by every single organization in the world anywhere, and if there was then it would be ...
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Why is President Trump ending affirmative action in college admissions so controversial?
I would describe the problem in a more mathematical way. I assume that the goal most of us can subscribe to is that of fair treatment based on performance, rather than skin color etc.
Now, imagine ...
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Why is President Trump ending affirmative action in college admissions so controversial?
Why is removing racial considerations out of the picture controversial?
It's not, or rather it wouldn't be if that that's what were in fact being done. The problem is that institutional racism doesn'...
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What's the difference between affirmative action and racism?
YES OR NO, it depends really...
Ultimately, as shown by Jeff Lambert's exhaustive accepted answer, it depends on how you define the word "racism".
According to Brittanica:
racism, also ...
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How does diversity in education affect educational attainment of students?
Are there any studies looking specifically at more tangible metrics
such as grades in diverse vs. non-diverse student bodies or how
increase/decrease of diversity correlates with student's grades?
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Fact-based arguments for and against President Biden's plan to appoint a black female to the US Supreme Court as being like Affirmative Action
The usual term for selecting a political candidate with a different background from other candidates is called balancing a ticket, not affirmative action. Calling a Supreme Court nomination ...
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What's the difference between affirmative action and racism?
It obviously depends on the definition of racism. If we take Oxford dictionary's definition
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their ...
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Are there examples of affirmative action (or equivalent) being applied to White groups?
Frame shift: where do you see this both being necessary and to be expected?
a white minority that is doing badly
a government that is well-run and compassionate enough to run ethnically-based ...
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Does reservation based affirmative action really help in reducing inequality?
There are a few ideas floating around behind concepts like Affirmative Action and desegregation:
Exposure breeds tolerance: people (as a rule) can be paranoid about people and things they are not ...
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What racial classification systems are used for affirmative action?
Definitions used by affirmative action policies are provided by other laws and policies which create those definitions and prescribe the manner in which they are assessed. How they are understood, ...
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