Sept 22 (Reuters) - A non-profit group opposing race-based education policies has filed more than a dozen U.S. civil rights complaints this year against universities, challenging the legality of offering minority scholarships, summer study and residency programs to promote racial diversity.
The challenges are part of a growing campaign against diversity initiatives after a U.S. Supreme Court landmark ruling in June outlawed use of race in college admissions, commonly known as affirmative action. Conservative activists say the decision should extend to all educational programs, and some groups have also challenged corporate diversity policies.
Is helping a specific group of people discrimination? Even when it’s focused on race?
I don’t think so, especially if it’s based on other factors like past historical events and continued consequences of that.
If it was putting a race over another it would be. Like if a scholarship rated Native Americans above Caucasians through a score to see how likely they would receive it.
Though I would admit affirmative action always gave me mixed feelings.
There are two types of people who support them. The people who need help and are angry that other people get help that they don’t, and racists.
I have trouble faulting the child of a white single mom on welfare who can’t qualify for any other scholarship. That’s a hard life, and they’re angry that someone else is getting help. I don’t agree, but I get it.
But everyone else, who isn’t desperate and is just annoyed that they don’t get their own special white scholarship? Racists.