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Kate's avatar

Believe it or not I recall years back here in commifornia that we voters actually passed a bill eliminating affirmative action in the UC system (demoncrats did not think it would win and so did not harvest enough ballots to defeat it). However, I do not think it has been implemented and could have even been overturned by our destructive legislature. (There are so many bad bills to fight here it is hard to keep up) Either way it was clear that even here, people when made aware of the absurdity of “equity” absolutely do not support it so I would hope there would be a continuous stream of lawsuits once the public is informed.

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PoppyGordon78's avatar

It was passed and it was enacted. Just read in Sowell’s Intellectuals and Race last night that students of color were admitted to schools that better matched their education potential- so while admissions to UCLA and Berkeley went down, overall, statewide, DEGREES went up considerably.

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Kate's avatar

Thank you so much!! I remembered many were very angry about the outcome of the election, but at the time the UC Chancellor, whose idea the proposition was, was black, so they could not cry racism (even a decade ago it would have appeared crazy to call a black man a white supremacist - oh how low we have descended). I also only remembered Asian admissions going up and the usual woke folk shouting about how affirmative action had to return to make it more "fair" with threats of lawsuits - delighted to know they failed at least this once in their efforts to undermine the true will of the people.

As any honest person will admit, admittance (or anything really, except maybe medical research??) based on race helps no one and hurts many. E pluribus unum, we need find what unites us, not what separates us.

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