Always questionable and curious when people choose to start caring about "discrimination".
Are Asian-americans not deserving of equal treatment?
So, as an Asian-American, I think affirmative action is a good thing, because it allows underprivileged minorities to get ahead. I would prefer that it would be reformed to also benefit Asians, who have also struggled in this nation for a while. But I can't support this lawsuit, because the end result is that this will end up benefitting white people far more than Asians, and minorities will once again be shafted. Affirmative action exists to benefit minorities, and yes while it usually doesn't benefit Asians, that's not a reason to throw it out, instead that's a way to push it to benefit all minorities, yet as I already said minorities will get shafted by this lawsuit, and white people will benefit.
Good.
Affirmative action is a flawed idea by design.
Aff. Action takes already disadvantaged kids who did worse by academic metrics and shoves all them into a pressure cooker environment.
Affirmative action is a convenient way to hide the real issues, which is the completely insane way our public K-12 schools are funded and too much administration in many of the districts.
This is a win for the Asian American community in general.
Pushing hard working people down is not how we will solve our educational inequities.
I think this is a bad way to look at it, there is systemic bias against minorities, and Asians in this country, and honestly there always will be. I think pushing to reform affirmative action to also benefit Asians would help, as I believe it should benefit all minorities, scrapping a policy that just needs some minor fixes is a bad idea.
But the point is, you are placing underprivileged students into an environment they still are unprepared for. It hurts the people who got rejected, and I would argue doesn’t really help those who get accepted because of Aff. Action.
We should get the the root of the issue, and that’s a combination of unequally funded primary schools, lack of resources for impoverished parents, and the low value of education in American culture (this one will be hardest to fix)
