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Affirmative Action In The US - Fisher V University Of Texas At Austin by 4Play(m): 8:36am On Jun 01, 2013
Fisher's case is a US Supreme Court case which was brought by a white petitioner who claimed she was denied admission to the University in preference to lesser qualified black and Latino students due to the school's affirmative action policies. She wants the Court to rule on whether affirmative action is constitutional.

The anti-AA argument is fairly straight forward: that discrimination in favour of Back and Latino students is unfair to other races and violates the principle against racial discrimination. Asian students who are a minority themselves suffer the most as they have to achieve higher grades than Black students just to get admitted to top tier universities.

Black and Latino students are admitted to schools they are ill-fitted for in the name of racial diversity only for them to drop out or otherwise struggle academically.

For the pro-AA argument, the imperatives of achieving racial diversity and remedying historical injustices against Black people justify the continued use of racial preference policies to help Black and Latino students. Though it's interesting that the beneficiaries of AA in top tier schools are often African immigrants or their descendants who didn't suffer the historical racial discrimination in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of_Texas
Re: Affirmative Action In The US - Fisher V University Of Texas At Austin by Afam4eva(m): 8:46am On Jun 01, 2013
This is America's own version of Federal Character. I think people should be admitted based on their academic strength and not based on color of skin.
Re: Affirmative Action In The US - Fisher V University Of Texas At Austin by tpia5: 1:31pm On Jun 01, 2013
asians achieve higher grades than everybody, not just blacks or whites.

their culture is such that doesnt allow for competition from other races, so they always remain on top.

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