U.S. Department of Justice to sue universities discriminating against whites

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    Joseph
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    The United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is planning to sue universities that discriminate against white applicants under the rubric of affirmative action that gives preferences to non-whites over white people.

    It is high time that the DOJ is finally going after the real discrimination that occurs.

    #1330472
    Avi K
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    In Fisher v. University of Texas I SCOTUS remanded a private suit to the lower courts with instructions to apply strict scrutiny. The result is now pending (Fisher II). I would think that the DOJ would wait for the decision.

    #1330499
    Mammele
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    Typical flaky government. Who exactly initiated affirmative action? What am I missing here?

    This seems similar to what happened with the Williamsburg, Brooklyn housing development/projects years ago. It went something like this, IIRC. In the sixties, NYC evicted or used eminent domain to get people to move away from the blocks the city wanted to build high rise “projects” on. These people, many of them Jewish, were promised cheap rental housing once the projects were constructed – which I believe they got. Additionally, most likely because they lived in the neighborhood already, and were largely Holocaust survivors in need of affordable housing, many more Jews moved into said projects.
    20 plus years later, minority organizations sued as they claimed the Jews were disproportionately represented in the Williamsburg projects, to their detriment. So to pacify the minorities, the housing agencies “legally” stopped renting to Jews. Jews already living there weren’t happy that the projects were slowly becoming “Judenrein” so Jewish organizations sued, and “won” a victory (or more likely settled) that those Jews that opt to move out of the projects will be given Section 8 vouchers when eligible. Most of these projects are now drug dens, like in the rest of NYC.

    I may be wrong about some details, as my memory is not perfect, so correct me if I’m wrong.

    Moral of the story: when trying to fix something, first do no harm.

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    👑RebYidd23
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    You can’t reasonably expect the government to be consistent. It’s made up of a bunch of different people, and if the system is working correctly, those people are replaced often.

    #1331173
    yytz
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    This is fake news. Turns out the DOJ is suing about claims universities discriminate against Asians, not against Whites.

    #1331181
    Mammele
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    Now this makes more sense. Whites in the US are consistently allowed to be discriminated against. More accurately, white males are the casualties of all the affirmative action being mandated by colleges, government business contracts etc. Which is why I believe Trump won.

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    Joseph
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    They’re planning lawsuits against universities for discrimination against both whites and Asians. Both the NYT and WaPo, among others including Reuters, are so reporting.

    #1331192
    👑RebYidd23
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    Mammele, you should believe in Trump’s victory even if you don’t think white males are the victims.

    #1331223
    Mammele
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    RY: thanks for cracking me up.

    Joseph: It’s a mystery in favor of whom the DOJ is planning to sue universities for, if it’s at all true. But the latest NYT article, if taken at face value, seems to indicate it’s in favor of ASIANS, not both whites and Asians as their prior article hinted.

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