Posted on 07/03/2018 7:24:04 AM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to revoke guidelines that encourage considering race in the college admissions process as a way of promoting diversity, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
The guidelines, put in place in the Obama administration in 2011 and 2016, put forth legal recommendations that Trump officials contend “mislead schools to believe that legal forms of affirmative action are simpler to achieve than the law allows,” the Journal reported, citing two people familiar with the plans.
Trump administration officials plan to argue the guidelines go beyond what the Supreme Court has decided on the issue.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled universities may use affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college. Conservatives have said such programs can hurt white people and Asian-Americans.
The Justice Department under Republican President Donald Trump has been investigating a complaint by more than 60 Asian-American organizations that say Harvard University’s policies are discriminatory because they limit the acceptance of Asian-Americans.
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WINNING!!!! Removing the racist rules
Yes, racism is such a big part of Democrat philosophy.
Yeah, it’s well timed, isn’t it? Not to insinuate anything, mind you.
The same goes on in corporate HR management discussions daily.
“This position is slated minority female.”
It’s about time! How about getting rid of affirmative action?
YES YES YES
If one won’t compete, one doesn’t belong
MERIT, Baybe
It’s called the Work Ethic . . . try it some time
“Affirmative Action” and “Diversity” Code words for racism and sexism against whites, males and Asians
Affirmative Action cannot go on forever. It’s a racist policy which has been accepted because it’s “for a good cause”. Well ... it’s still racist. And it doesn’t seem to be helping anything.
Oh boy, the media’s going to be seething over this one.
Yep. Yet another awful Obama policy scrapped.
Its helped hundred of thousands of unqualified blacks in Maryland and Virginia to get six figure jobs with the Federal Government.
I guess BO made that policy because they’re too dumb to compete without it, or what??
I was told 45+ years ago -— by a college admissions officer! -— that “affirmative action” was a way to keep the top Universities from being “oversubscribed” with Jews in the East, Asians in the West.
As the country grows more diverse it’s sounding the death knell for Affirmative Action. You simply can no longer justify jumping Blacks in line ahead of others who are no longer necessarily White. The resulting racial warfare would tear the Democrat Party to shreds.
Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature.
Merit based admissions are the only way to go......................
Race should not be a factor for college admissions. That is racism
Two wrongs don’t make a right, reverse discrimination is just as bad as the original sin, maybe worse.
A white, Christian, heterosexual male is always pushed to the back of the bus.
The Jewish organizations argued as such in the 1977 Bakke v Regents of California case
And you know some left wing, anti Semitic admissions officers are going to look the other way as well as bigot against Caucasians and Asians.
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