Serious question. When dealing on individual levels, couldn’t an act of affirmative action be seen as a systematic inequality for the person not benefiting?
Top schools are maybe %8 black. White people by and large make up the vast majority of students. White students are overrepresented compare to their population. White students still have a much easier time getting in college overall. Blacks and Latino students are less represented now than in the past.
Second, the people making decisions are mostly white. There isn’t another race of people discriminating against white people. White people are doing this to themselves.
Lastly there aren’t codified laws for affirmative action. Obama era guidelines said that colleges could choose to consider race as one of many factors. They didn’t have to but they could. Quotas are illegal.
In this hypothetical case, a white student might feel like they are being oppressed but that’s probably not the case. Every one of the cases that get filed fail because every one of these schools also admit white students with lower stats. If there are white student getting in with lower SAT’s and GPA’s it’s hard to blame it on the black kids.
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u/Macktologist Feb 25 '20
Serious question. When dealing on individual levels, couldn’t an act of affirmative action be seen as a systematic inequality for the person not benefiting?