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CA to vote on repealing prop 209: allowing discrimination based on race and sex (ballotpedia.org)
3 points by stx on July 1, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Title is mismatched and misleading. Actual page title: "California Repeal Proposition 209 Affirmative Action Amendment (2020)"


In what way does it lead a reader to believe something that is untrue from the actual page? Are you saying that the actual page does not describe a vote to repeal proposition 209?

From the page:

> A "yes" vote supports this constitutional amendment to repeal Proposition 209 (1996), which prohibited the state from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting.

Some of the text that would be removed from the CA constitution:

> The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.


> After 25 years of quantitative and qualitative data, we see that race-neutral solutions cannot fix problems steeped in race."[15]

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