What would people here say if a professor flunked a much higher proportion of his white students than black or Hispanic? Or flunked more Asian students than anyone else?
They might claim bias. Well, the other groups might do the same when it happens the other way.
For STEM courses, no one really has a good argument. You either pass the tests or you don’t.
OTOH, for courses heavy in writing, professors sometimes show bias, especially on politics. If you agree with them, you might get a better grade.
But, most students drop their courses when they’re not doing well. They don’t get an F if the course never shows up on their transcript.
The topic here is what happens when large numbers of unqualified students of a certain demographic are admitted.
My point is that if Affirmative Action results in a professor having a significant number of unprepared and unqualified black students, with the result that a very disproportionate number of them either drop the class or flunk, then that leaves the professor open to racism accusations. Regardless of how ridiculous the charges might objectively be.
A university CANNOT see a large percentage of its black students drop out. To prevent that, they WILL put pressure on professors to either give enough help to the blacks to pass, or fudge the grades of the black students.