The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Except their not. The biases and economic circumstances that created the need for this are still in existence. This is strictly about causing harm to black people.

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      10 months ago

      Yes clearly. Everyone who is even slightly critical of “affirmative” action either in general or in principle or in practice is only strictly motivated by the desire to cause harm.

      You definitely convinced me.

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      9 months ago

      So fix the circumstances. Use federal funding to bring equality to the public school system and broaden SNAP to cover more disadvantaged people and provide them with a greater level of assistance.