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Benign discrimination? (Correction, Please!).(University of Michigan accused of practicing reverse discrimination)(Brief Article)
ITEM: "The question at the center" of the debate at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1st, said the Detroit Free Press, "is whether the Constitution leaves room to advance the opportunities that America has always promised for each and every one of its citizens. Surely the answer must be yes. If the high court strikes down the University of Michigan's use of affirmative action in admission, it will severely hamper efforts by colleges -- and employers, including the US. military -- to reach out to people they shunned for generations."
CORRECTION: Affirmative Action does not create equal opportunity but destroys it. The University of Michigan's "affirmative action" discrimination is blatant, with Asians and whites, for example, held to stricter standards than government-recognized "victim" groups.
At the law school there is a quota, disguised as a needed "critical mass" of minorities. To reach this quota, court testimony reveals, mere membership in certain groups increases the odds of acceptance "many, many (tens to ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Benign discrimination? (Correction, Please!).(University of Michigan...