It kind of bothered me a little bit that the author didn’t actually clearly define affirmative action anywhere that I could see, but I also noticed that it kind of seemed like they were saying that having a disproportionate number of Asian people is bad because there isn’t enough diversity, but having a mostly white people is fine because they’re the majority demographic in America. That part didn’t really make sense to me.
Also, I’d rather admissions people would choose people based on merit rather than saying “We have to have a certain number of these demographics but the rest can be white!”, which is what I think the author is saying seems to happen, which doesn’t seem fair to anybody. My understanding of affirmative action is that it’s meant to prevent admissions people from discriminating against people of color and favoring white people, but it seems like in practice it’s more like the way the author describes, where they’re just meeting a quota and paying lip service to the fact that they’re “diverse”.
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