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> This is widely understood to be a form of affirmative action.

That's a misunderstanding then because that's not affirmative action. Affirmative action is targeting specific groups of people to achieve some desired makeup. That's literally what affirmative action means.

It doesn't ensure you get all the best students. That's true. But that doesn't make it affirmative action.




>Affirmative action is targeting specific groups of people to achieve some desired makeup. That's literally what affirmative action means.

When the 10% of a high school class consists of a statistically outsized proportion of a desired group of people favoring them would be called affirmative action, yes. Just because a policy doesn't pick people out by the color of their skin doesn't make it not affirmative action. (And likewise, just because a policy doesn't call out skin color doesn't make it not racist.)




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