Affirmative Action
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Reservation system means poor people from Upper Caste give up seats for the benefit of rich people from Lower Caste.
People know about affirmative action in universities, medicine, etc, but what about in government? What does it mean when constituencies are more worried about their politicians l...
Why care about merit? What harm is there in affirmative action programs that reward the less qualified? Here's the story of the Martin Luther King Jr/Drew Medical Center (King/Dre...
[THREAD] 1/ The most perfect (and almost unbelievable) metaphor for affirmative action: The lives of Allan Bakke (a white guy who challenged racial quotas at UC Davis) and Patrick...
Justice Jackson's dissent in the affirmative action cases was fantastic, and I'm going to point out some of the parts that impacted me the most here:
Let's talk about something y'all don't want to :) Reservation First of all, reservation is not a POVERTY ALLEVIATION SCHEME, its about mere representation and not economic uplift...
In a discussion over affirmative action, Sotomayor ironically shows she doesn't know the basic difference between "de facto" and "de jure." It's not a slip of the tongue, they go...
People misunderstand the point of this statistic. It’s not just that it's unfair that foreigners benefit instead of the descendants of slaves. The point is that without importing h...
The claim that people arguing against affirmative action "have long relied race science" is false and that Sci Am published such propaganda is shameful. Two examples follow in thi...
How can they be forgotten? What is this forgetting mechanism that is being envisioned? Affirmative action or reservation system ensures no one can forget until that mythical playi...
WOMEN EQUALIZATION and EMPOWERMENT: This term is preferred. Nails it compared to Gender equalization and empowerment which is more general and cosmetized. Affirmative ACTION is ur...
SCOOP: Google is setting hard caps on how many white and Asian students universities can nominate for a prestigious fellowship, a policy that likely violates civil rights law and c...
Enforcing laws against street violence would have a disparate impact on African Americans. So would adopting merit-based college admissions. That’s the connection. https://t.co/7CE...