I think affirmative action policies do not violate white applicants’ rights or any other racial group’s rights. Racial groups do not have rights. Individual citizens have rights, and policies that attempt to give special treatment on a racial basis violate the rights of all individuals, including especially individuals of the supposedly favored group who are robbed of the opportunity to succeed or fail on their own individual merits.
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