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Anti-affirmative action group, emboldened by US Supreme Court, targets scholarships
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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.