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applegrove

(118,711 posts)
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:14 PM Aug 2017

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times.

The document, an internal announcement to the civil rights division, seeks current lawyers interested in working for a new project on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions.”

The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities.

The document does not explicitly identify whom the Justice Department considers at risk of discrimination because of affirmative action admissions policies. But the phrasing it uses, “intentional race-based discrimination,” cuts to the heart of programs designed to bring more minority students to university campuses.



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Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2017 OP
"Only whites need apply" Trump SOP Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #1
I think it's more likely that Yupster Aug 2017 #3
And back in the early decades of the 20th century PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2017 #4
That is so true. applegrove Aug 2017 #7
Yes. applegrove Aug 2017 #8
According to Fake News channel, Wellstone ruled Aug 2017 #5
The career lawyers in the DOJ civil rights division will not touch these cases Gothmog Aug 2017 #2
...of course they are. Warren DeMontague Aug 2017 #6
Here's one of the issues I break ranks with a lot of liberals. Archae Aug 2017 #9
Did you get the part that others pointed out, without quotas Harvard applegrove Aug 2017 #10
Trump gained power through racial division dalton99a Aug 2017 #11
At any other time in recent history you'd think this was the Onion. Vinca Aug 2017 #12
IMO, automation is going to greatly reduce the need for universities... CK_John Aug 2017 #13
Who Benefits Affirmative Action Tetunot Aug 2017 #14
It is asians and jews who are discrimated against. applegrove Aug 2017 #16
Post removed Post removed Aug 2017 #15

Yupster

(14,308 posts)
3. I think it's more likely that
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:29 PM
Aug 2017

only Asians will need to apply.

If colleges went only by merit, the best colleges would be overwhelmingly Asian.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,865 posts)
4. And back in the early decades of the 20th century
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:48 PM
Aug 2017

they'd have been overwhelmingly Jewish.

My late father-in-law (Jewish) was rejected the first time he applied the the University of Michigan Medical School in the early 1930's and was told to his face by whoever was head of either the medical school or whoever headed up admissions to the medical school, that "We already have too many of your kind."

He actually complained, and the President of the entire University didn't take kindly to that. The man who said that was fired and my father-in-law went to medical school.

This is the kind of bullshit that privileged white men whine about, saying jobs are being taken from them by unqualified minorities and women. You can especially see this side in the higher levels of business. Yeah, right. Nearly everyone in the executive suites is white and male. And quite frankly, if you can't make it on your own merit and talent, then, what can I say?

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. According to Fake News channel,
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:50 PM
Aug 2017

this is their Game Plan. All them Brown and Yellow Skinned People are taking over their White Schools of Higher Learning.

Archae

(46,337 posts)
9. Here's one of the issues I break ranks with a lot of liberals.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 12:42 AM
Aug 2017

Affirmative Action works only with quotas, either hiring someone for a job or letting someone in at a college, or whatnot.

It's wrong. Period.

It's like "Zero Tolerance" in schools for keeping drugs and crime out.

Gives the appearance of doing something that doesn't require a lot of effort.

And finding those who discriminate based on race or religion or whatnot is not that difficult.

applegrove

(118,711 posts)
10. Did you get the part that others pointed out, without quotas Harvard
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 01:35 AM
Aug 2017

would be filled only with Asians? Or that if it was the 1950s it would be filled only with people of the Jewish faith? Quotas help balance different groups including whites.

Tetunot

(18 posts)
14. Who Benefits Affirmative Action
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 08:43 AM
Aug 2017

How ironic, Affirmative Action benefits white females more than POC. So essentially Sessions & DonnyTwoScoops will be investigating the people they claim are being discriminated against.


Correction, it's white males who are discriminated against, not POC or white women.

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