What is affirmative action?

Affirmative Action Act refers to the affirmative action act that was born in the flood of American black movement and women's movement in 1960s. It began with an anti-discrimination executive order issued by President Kennedy in 196 1.

Later, after many revisions, it became an important bill affecting countless Americans today, mainly focusing on education and employment. Take care of ethnic minorities, Native Americans, women and other historically excluded groups.

At that time, the left-wing ideological trend thought that "whoever gets good grades will have the priority to go to school", which is unfair to "ethnic minorities", so these vulnerable groups should be "properly taken care of". Correcting racial and group discrimination since the founding of the United States. Because Asians are the hardest-working group of all ethnic groups in the United States, the biggest victims of this "equal rights" have become them.

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Due to the implementation of the affirmative action act, the situation in the field of education in the United States has gone from one extreme to the other. For example, some education and research projects have reached the point where they cannot apply for admission if they are not ethnic minorities.

Due to obvious irrationality, recently, several important universities have successively abolished affirmative action laws and set up some programs that "discriminate" most students. Among them, California abolished the implementation of this bill in the state through a referendum;

10 years later, Michigan followed suit and kicked the bill. States such as Missouri and Washington have also joined California's "Allies".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Affirmative Action Act