US supreme court strikes down affirmative action

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Live updates: Supreme Court decision on affirmative action
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You can never change who your parents are, that's some real mental gymnastics to justify how hereditary acceptance criteria is good actually, but using race to identify those underservered by k-12 education, lacking in family connections, not having knowledge of college specific tricks to getting accepted & generally having less resources available to do the extra-ciricular activity to get in, and compensate for that bias is bad.

Affirmative action is only silly if you don't accept that systemic racism exists.

Affirmative action is only silly if you don’t accept that systemic racism exists.

Just because AA isn't "silly" doesn't mean it's a correct policy

Most of AA "positives" can be achieved with income-based criteria, more seats in courses and the unachievable better base education and home environment

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