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Affirmative action advocates should make a better case; Don't expect for it to last forever!
Topic Started: Feb 22 2012, 04:00 PM (301 Views)
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Affirmative action advocates should make a better case
The Devil's Advocate

By Jason Willick | Staff
Last Updated Feb. 2, 2012


Affirmative action found its way back onto The Daily Californian's front page Tuesday - this time without the help of a satirical bake sale.

For those of you who aren't up to date on the latest Proposition 209 news: Students staged a protest on Monday outside a San Francisco courthouse as appeals court judges heard a challenge to Prop. 209, the 1996 measure that banned affirmative action at California's public institutions. Protesters chanted slogans like "You say Jim Crow, we say hell no!"

Many students at UC Berkeley objected to the student government's endorsement of the protest, a reminder that affirmative action continues to divide the campus.

Those who advocate the repeal of Prop. 209 are making an extremely weak case to the public, and preposterous comparisons between the Jim Crow South and race-blind admissions policies hardly strengthen it. They could and should be making a substantially more compelling argument.

Nearly all justifications for granting racial preferences in college admissions can be sorted into two broad categories. The first is a case for leveling the playing field - the idea that because racism has done profound harm to minority groups, the only way to ensure that they enjoy equality of opportunity is to give them a boost in the admissions process. The second argument is that a diverse student body enriches everyone's educational experience.

The level playing field argument has dominated campus discussion at UC Berkeley. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said in a statement that "The playing field will really only be level once Prop. 209 is repealed." Salih Muhammad, chair of UC Berkeley's black student union, said during the Prop 209 protest "we believe this is the court's opportunity to rectify past wrongs." Back when the bake sale controversy was burning last semester, this was also affirmative action supporters' leading defense of their position. Berkeley Law Professor David Oppenheimer's Op-Ed in the Daily Cal, which suggests that affirmative action be used to reverse the effects of Republican policies that discriminate against African-Americans, is just one example.

It’s surprising that the level playing field argument is so popular on campus even though the Supreme Court rejected it in the 1978 case Bakke v. Regents, just 14 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The Supreme Court has allowed affirmative action programs at public institutions to continue - but only "to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger.

Many of my peers are suspicious of the level playing field argument for affirmative action, as am I. Thirty-seven percent of UC Berkeley undergraduates are eligible for Pell Grants, 53 percent are female, and only around a third are caucasian- this is hardly a citadel of privileged white males, or of students who have not faced adversity. UC Berkeley students recognize that race-based affirmative action policies would necessarily make it harder for white and Asian students to get into Berkeley by displacing them with less qualified, less represented minorities.




A female Asian gives her perspective
White Women and Affirmative Action
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/affirm23.htm

An Asian male gives his perspective
For Asian Americans, a Barrier or a Boon?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/affirm/stories/affirm062198.htm

Evidently, Asians don't need "Affirmative Action".
Perhaps they're "smarter" than other races.
Evidently it must be true, because in the sciences, and medicine, they're very well represented. Genetics, or environment, which one?


Can the authors of this book be correct?

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Feb 22 2012, 04:00 PM
Can the authors of this book be correct?

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And this is why we know you're actually a White Nationalist (male or female. The jury is still out). No self-respecting Black woman of supposedly 70 who has stated she was a young women during the era of George Wallace's segregation forever speeches and states that she wants a brighter future for Blacks would even remotely suggest that anything like the damn Bell Curve is an accurate portrayal of intelligence along the racial lines and a guide book to suggesting that even the most intelligent of Blacks should be given menial slave-like tasks because even the dumbest White is better by the default of being White.

You. Will. Fail.
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There is no good argument for AA in 2012
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WHY? THE COURT ARE JUST APPEASING THE IDIOTS. ? AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HAS ENDED IN USA .
IT STARTED 51 YEARS AGO. BY JOHN F KENNEDY. IN MAR. 6 1961.
1. EQUALITY FOR ALL MAJORITY RACES.
A. JOBS, SCHOOL, MEDICAL,HOUSING ETC.
THE SUPREME COURT UP HELD IT ENDING.

NOW!!!!! COLORED PEOPLE BEING CARRIED IS OVER.
A. YOUR CAUCASIAN DEMOGOGUE HAS KICKED YOU TO THE CURVE. YOUR PSEUDO-WHITE MAN DEMAGOG.
B. NOW LEARN TO CARRY YOUR SELVES.COLORED IDIOTS.
C. YOU HAD 51 YEARS TOO UNITE = OBTAINING SOVEREIGHTY AS A RACE.
1. YOU WERE TO BUSY TRYING TO BE A CAUCASIAN COPY, ERSATZ.
2.YOU WILL KNOW WHAT SUFFERING IS WITHOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.
3. LET YOUR COLORED LASSITUDE WOMEN LEADER , LEAD YOU NOW IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
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