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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t mean to sound rude but who cares?  I will be perfectly honest that in my view, the goal of affirmative action is to fix the systemic injustices created by slavery (and other racial injustices) where those injustices still exist for minority groups. If one particular minority group is no longer impacted by the past injustices perpetrated against them, then that is not a reason to scrap a policy that helps other minority groups. No longer benefiting from a particular policy aimed to increase social justice and right the past errors that created those injustices is not a reason to throw out the policy as a whole. [/quote]
Who cares if Asian Americans feel they are racially discriminated against? Who cares if certain groups are still impacted by past injustices, given they aren't even the ones affected by the historical injustice? How many African Americans today were enslaved? Subject to segregation?

Also, the argument for Affirmative Action today is not righting historical injustices, it is diversity. [/quote]

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