Pew: US adults disapprove of affirmative
action 50-33
Hot Air,
by
John Sexton
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/8/2023 10:36:16 PM
As we await the Supreme Court decision that could bring an end to affirmative action, Pew Research has published the results of a poll showing that fully half of US adults disapprove of it.
Half of U.S. adults say they disapprove of selective colleges and universities taking prospective students’ racial and ethnic backgrounds into account when making admissions decisions. Fewer (33%) approve of colleges considering race and ethnicity to increase diversity at the schools, while 16% are not sure.
With the court nearing the end of its term and decisions in two related cases involving the private Harvard College and the public University of North Carolina expected
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/8/2023 10:46:59 PM (No. 1488041)
Affirmative Action, that government sanctioned acknowledgement that you aren't as smart as others. Here's your sign-on bonus for being our ''token.''
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/8/2023 11:44:28 PM (No. 1488051)
When applying for a state job in Louisiana, you sign a bunch of papers. One says you agree with affirmative action. Sign it or you don't get a job. It might have been a good thing to start with, lots more black people got good jobs. But at a point where they couldn't compete, they fell back on the 'racism' cry and in the end it's been really bad for some of them. This is not equality, it's preferential treatment which does no one any good.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/9/2023 4:18:48 AM (No. 1488116)
Blatantly bogus numbers. Affirmative Action fills our government with an overly stacked number of persons of color but out here in the real world it is nothing but a misguided government program that slows things down and creates a diluted, unhappy workforce. The few that want to work are given a bad name by the many who do not.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
billa57 6/9/2023 6:31:03 AM (No. 1488163)
Affirmative action = systematic racism. Better off being an equal like what Republicans want. Democrats are the biggest racists of them all for their insistence that Blacks aren't as capable as everyone else and need an unfair advantage. Another monkey wrench democrats have thrown into the free society machine.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 6/9/2023 9:58:24 AM (No. 1488306)
Affirmative Action is absolutely systemic racism, and they complain about it all the time....while they do it to whites, and benefit from it every day.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trapper 6/9/2023 10:05:10 AM (No. 1488317)
America has had over half a century of "reparations" in the form of Black preferences in college admissions, grading, hiring, promotion, and government contracting set-asides. Black Priviledge has been the rule since 1964. Since it has clearly NOT elevated everyone to equal positions socially or economically, perhaps it is finally time to look for the impediments to success within the Black culture itself, where promiscuity, illegitimacy, lack of impulse control, ignorance, and failuire are glorified.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/9/2023 10:13:48 AM (No. 1488327)
Exactly, #2. AA sets minorities up for failure, especially in college admissions. And when they can’t cut it, they get angry and bitter and sometimes violent. At some point I hope that minorities will wake up to what the demonicrats have been doing to them for the last 60 years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/9/2023 12:03:38 PM (No. 1488412)
Way back when the participation trophy was handed to every child no matter who won....it started...WE have a participation president ...who didn't win...but was guaranteed a job and plenty of money for his old age...well he's there now...so I guess it's for hunter....BUT... not his grandchild that he snubs....
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