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Already this week, the court handed down blockbuster decisions on affirmative action and election law.
And, of course, in the next couple of weeks the Supreme Court is all but certain to hand down a decision on affirmative action that is likely to force more positive change in this area.
Source: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/06/19/op-ed-why-does-gop-hate-engineers/
And this week’s affirmative action and LGBTQ+ rulings (2023), which respectively set back the fight for equal opportunities for minorities in education and opened the door to overt discrimination of protected groups.
Around 60% of students support affirmative action.
Source: https://www.deseret.com/2023/9/27/23891043/free-speech-on-campus-cancel-culture
As Black students at an elitist university where affirmative action is extremely necessary, processing this ruling has been hard,” the Stanford Black Student Union (BSU) in a statement following the decision.
At the time, the bill seeking to create extra 111 seats for women and legislation on 35 percent affirmative action was rejected.
But Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued in a dissenting opinion that affirmative action has been used as an effective tool for promoting diversity and inclusion in higher education.
But that doesn’t mean the fight for affirmative action should end.
But that hasn’t stopped conservative activist Edward Blum and his mission to kill affirmative action altogether.
Source: https://newsone.com/4624577/history-of-affirmative-action-in-america/
Charlie Kirk says some prominent black women are low IQ, got where they are due to affirmative action, and at the expense of smarter whites.
ChatGPT’s answers have also rankled conservatives in the United States, who have accused the bot of being “woke” on hot-button social issues such as affirmative action and transgender rights.
Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said Mr. Ackman’s comments set back inclusion efforts only months after the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education in a case involving Harvard.
Days after the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions on June 29, 2023, activists say they will sue Harvard over its use of legacy preferences for children of alumni.
Source: https://www.dailynews.com/2023/08/19/biden-refuses-to-accept-court-ruling-on-affirmative-action/
Even today, affirmative action programs that offer an admissions boost to black and Hispanic students discriminate against those who identify themselves as members of other races that do not receive such preferential treatment.
Ford continued that affirmative action was originally created to be used as an integration model to bring different cultures together at the educational level.
Former president George W. Bush is a classic example of how legacy admissions are effectively a form of affirmative action for the rich.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/14/end-legacy-admissions/
For them, the trillions spent on public welfare, the war on poverty, and education plus affirmative action are, in fact, reparations and since their impact is uncertain, why spend trillions more?
Source: https://www.gopusa.com/the-quixotic-quest-for-reparations/
However, rather than taking affirmative action to ensure their safeguards by strengthening the legal regime, governments now appear to be targeting whatever little opportunities granted to them.”
In 1986, ruling in a pair of cases, the Supreme Court upheld affirmative action as a remedy for past job discrimination.
In a pair of decisions announced June 29, court majorities struck down affirmative action in college admissions, ruling against UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University, the nation’s oldest public and private colleges, respectively.