Good ad. Can't wait for Prop 16 to pass with huge numbers!
Affirmative action is the ultimate epitomie of neoliberal professional managerial class politics. It strengthens the advantages of the PMC in college admissions (by opposing standardized tests for instance in favour of less objective measures such as extracurriculars or "personality") while providing for cosmetic cosmopolitanism by admitting the elites of various ethnicities despite doing little in terms of levelling based on income. Poor and even lower middle-class whites and Asians are shafted by such a system. It also represents a politics of austerity by encouraging identitarian competition for a limited number of university seats rather than expanding the number of said seats or increasing access to vocational education.
I find it interesting that the Asians who hypothetically have the most to lose from affirmative action (younger, less educated, and poor-to-lower-middle-class) are more supportive of these referenda. The Asian American opposition to affirmative action is mostly just from adult immigrants and professional class suburbanites.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/affirmative-action-debate-ignores-asian-american-community-college-students-n1242201"At the end of the day, UCs are only going to admit so many freshmen," said Eloy Oakley, chancellor of California Community Colleges. "While they're important, there's only so much to change." Should Proposition 16 pass, he said, "the real change is going to happen in community colleges."
