Obviously Affirmative Action wasn’t something that should be in place forever, but any reasonable person has to see that it sought to un-tip scales that were already heavily tipped. The process for removing Affirmative Action should not be “well let’s ask some old people whether we should remove it”, it should have been a long term study showing the impact of the measure, and perhaps come up with a plan for scaling it back until it was no longer needed. Removing it outright without any kind of intelligence behind it is just…irresponsible.
I’ve known quite a lot of people to complain about affirmative action and similar efforts. And while I can agree it’s a pretty clumsy solution, I’m not sure what people expect when they’re not willing to have a deeper conversation about the tensions and issues that lead there, even outside the United States. In the U.S. itself it’s headache-inducing when people’s “solution” is to simply undo affirmative action with no other response or ideas to take its place.
Obviously Affirmative Action wasn’t something that should be in place forever, but any reasonable person has to see that it sought to un-tip scales that were already heavily tipped. The process for removing Affirmative Action should not be “well let’s ask some old people whether we should remove it”, it should have been a long term study showing the impact of the measure, and perhaps come up with a plan for scaling it back until it was no longer needed. Removing it outright without any kind of intelligence behind it is just…irresponsible.
I’ve known quite a lot of people to complain about affirmative action and similar efforts. And while I can agree it’s a pretty clumsy solution, I’m not sure what people expect when they’re not willing to have a deeper conversation about the tensions and issues that lead there, even outside the United States. In the U.S. itself it’s headache-inducing when people’s “solution” is to simply undo affirmative action with no other response or ideas to take its place.