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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

yeah but you can't fix one injustice with another injustice. as one of SCOTUS said, when is it enough? how do you know when to stop? [/quote]

What’s the injustice? [b] That Asian Americans get into a particular school at rates well above their representation in the general population but may lose a few spots to other minorities?[/b]  I don’t see that as an injustice.

Supreme Court is full of conservative hacks, so I am really not looking to them to provide a good insight into undoing systemic social injustices. [/quote]

So we should only allow % reflecting group's population? Good lord. [/quote]

Never said that. Even with AA, Asian Americans are over represented and Blacks are underrepresented at most schools. [/quote]

Maybe they are better qualified. I don't suppose you would accept that possibility. [/quote]

I am going to leave it to colleges to decide who is qualified. Many seem to believe academics (which I assume is what you mean by qualified) are only one of the many things an applicant can contribute to create a robust student population at a school. [/quote]

And yet, Asian Americans students are exceling in not only Academics  but  ECs, Social work, Volunteering, Internships, Jobs.  And they also come from all economic strata and many have the language barriers at home.

Affirmative Action is actually not benefiting URMs (Blacks and Hispanics) in significant ways and I do not believe that they are negetaviely impacting Asian Americans in a big way (because there are not too many URMs chasing the degrees in the first place).

However, in the guise of Affirmative Action, Asian Americans are not given admission  and seats are given to underqualified White candidates.  If the seats were actually going to qualified URMs, I would not have a problem.

I feel that academics being reasonably equal, we must give a chance to poor and middle class students first.  It will cover many URMs and poor White and Asian students.

But, if such modifications does not happen, I would want to have affirmative action remain.  I do not want any of our civil rights eroded.

- Mom of Asian American high achieving student.

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