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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of white child without any athletic or legacy hooks here. I am fully supportive of efforts by public and private colleges and universities to diversify their student bodies. The idea that white students face discrimination in admission to higher education is laughable.[/quote]

You don't understand "affirmative action" - preferences based on race = racial discrimination.   Support it if you like, defend it if you will, but you can't deny what it is.[/quote]Respectfully, maybe it's you who doesn't fully understand the definition of affirmative action as it relates to judicial rulings.

The main criteria for inclusion in affirmative action programs are [u]race, sex, ethnic origin, religion, disability, and age[/u].  Please be factually accurate in your definition, PP.

It isn't all about race though most tend to zone in on that aspect until they need it to defend inequities on their behalf.  Then affirmative action takes on another definition and becomes something else.  Just ask women who are the biggest beneficiaries.[/quote]

Actually it is 99.9999% about race.  Name the schools that grant preferences based on age?  ethnic origin (separate from race)?  There is a lot of effort going into obscuring and justifying plain old discrimination based on race.

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You are incorrect.

Many colleges and universities give "preference" to applicants of Hispanic heritage. (That would be an ethnicity, as opposed to a race.)

Many colleges and universities have a policy of giving "preference" to nontraditional applicants, like an older person who is attending college for the first time.

Many liberal arts colleges, including public ones like William & Mary, give "preference" to male applicants. (Check out the acceptance rates for males versus females at W&M. You think that's because the male applicants are better qualified? Um, no.) By the same token (no pun intended), many engineering/technology colleges/universities give "preference" to female applicants.[/quote]

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