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Friday, June 30th, 2023

White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents

Author:     Victoria M. Massie
Source:     Vox
Publication Date:     Jun 29, 202 | 3:47pm EDT
 Link: White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents
Stephan:  

I am sure unless you have been asleep under a bridge, you are aware of the latest Supreme Court decision, decided by the christofascist MAGAt cabal. So I am not doing my lead story on just that decision because it is being so well covered. I want to cover an aspect of it that I have not heard a single commentator on television talk about, one that I think is a very important factor. As Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw published in the University of Michigan Law Review in 2006, “The primary beneficiaries of affirmative action have been Euro-American women.”

Jennifer Gratz was one of the first to successfully argue against race in affirmative action.
Credit: Andrew Burton / Getty

Editor’s note, June 29, 2023: The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively ended affirmative action in higher education in a pair of cases concerning admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Read our latest coverage here. The original story, on a separate 2016 case out of Texas, follows.

The University of Texas Austin was Abigail Fisher’s dream school. Fisher, from Sugar Land, Texas, a wealthy Houston suburb, earned a 3.59 GPA in high school and scored an 1180 on the SATs.

Not bad, but not enough for the highly selective UT Austin in fall 2008; Fisher’s dreams were dashed when she was denied admission.

In response, Fisher sued. Her argument? That applicants of color, whose racial backgrounds were included as a component of the university’s holistic review process, were less-qualified students and had displaced her.

Students graduating in the top 10 percent of any Texas high school are granted an automatic spot at UT Austin. […]

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