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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJustice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html"SNIP.....
WASHINGTON The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Departments 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 divisions front office, where the Trump administrations 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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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Yupster
(14,308 posts)only Asians will need to apply.
If colleges went only by merit, the best colleges would be overwhelmingly Asian.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,865 posts)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?
applegrove
(118,711 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)this is their Game Plan. All them Brown and Yellow Skinned People are taking over their White Schools of Higher Learning.
Gothmog
(145,353 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)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)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.
dalton99a
(81,527 posts)So no one should be surprised by this
Vinca
(50,285 posts)CK_John
(10,005 posts)Tetunot
(18 posts)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.
applegrove
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